Osama bin Laden Fulfilled His One True Ambition: Noah Feldman

Sept. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Here is a bet about the decade sinceSept. 11: Historians are going to be mystified by it.

First, the U.S. won the Cold War -- or at least it appearedto. Then, like the U.K. initiating the Industrial Revolution atthe height of its global dominance, the U.S. jump-started theInformation Revolution. A decade after the Berlin Wall camedown, the U.S. seemed poised for another century of globaldomination through a combination of hard and soft power. Wecould even afford an extended legal fight over who the nextpresident was going to be.