Tangled Webs We Weave: Hezbollah, Bin Laden, and the Arab Spring
Osama bin Laden has been gone for about a month now, bringing forth a plethora of experts analyzing exactly what his death means to the greater conflict against radical Islam. On the one side are the doomsayers who stridently screech that his death did nothing but inflame the Muslim world, sparking the creation of a legion of new terrorists. On the other side are predictions of the demise of Al Qaida and the subsequent fragmenting of bin Laden’s bankrupt nihilistic vision because of the onslaught of the Arab [...]