Yes. Qutbism advocates violence against all and sundry. But the violence is intended to provoke foreign powers to invade Arab lands, and thereby generate grassroots opposition to those powers. That opposition, theoretically, should generate Islamic revolution that will sweep the Arab world. After that, concern would center on the non-Arabic Islamic world, and thence to non-Islamic areas. to Bin Laden and his allies the so called Islamic states are apostate and must be cleansed and reborn before "the rubbish heap of the west" is dealt with.
The point is that AT THIS POINT, America is a target, not because OBL wants to overthrow it (he's not stupid enough to think he can do that) but to provoke the US to do what it's doing -- stagger around the world punishing all who would dare attack it.
on the contrary he attacks to make you leave Muslim lands , he wishes to inflict enough damage so that people will force your governments to withdraw and let him get on with "business" he knows its only a matter of waiting it out and the coalition will withdraw ,America is in the way.
Frankly, the most effective means America could use against OBL is (a) desist military action; and (b) remedy their poor relations with the Islamic world. Forget revenge. For in pursuing it, America serves OBL in the most profound and effective way. Going forward, pursue attackers by means of international law. If that law is unhelpful, continue to build international relations and institutions to make it better. This cowboyish going it alone has only caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi citizens. Let's not forget that 3000 or so people died in 9/11 -- haven't their deaths been more than avenged by those hundreds of thousands?
