Critical to US security?
November 18, 2008 WHILE American President-elect Barack Obama's statement, that he would order a quick drawdown of troops from Iraq as soon as he formally occupies the White House on January 20, makes good sense, his view that Osama bin Laden is "critical" to US security is open to question, to say the least. Mr bin Laden, if still alive, is, as any strategist would have realised by now, barely a titular head of Al-Qaeda and his removal from the scene would hardly make a difference.
