Khrushchev aside (however an early 'spiritual' antagonist to the US System)--yet unable to achieve a er, 'Red Plenty'-fulness of consumer gadgets amid simultaneous/massive military drain.

Count up the individual-Outrages committed by 'us'/U.S. in too-many nations, locales, times--the total #of people injured doesn't need steenkin numbers: it's staggering.
bin-L's utterly-cheap single (set of) Action!(s) was the Inflection Point though, IMO; add-in all those unfulfilled, persistent, individual feelings of Vengeance-denied:
..and 9/11 was >their< First physical==palpable event of striking-back at the Perpetrator of their loss, their pain and all that festering thirst for Vengeance ... against a (say) rich, bumbling and geographically-insulated bully.
[Pretty simplistic/lots glossed over that was Not-evil, etc. but I'd bet on that simple/unsorted Vengeance-thing as the commonality of n-people.]
bin-Laden may or may not have been prescient re. Murican response--at least to the devastating degree we now see was achieved.
(But he has to be the #1 Champion of max-ROI on any biz deal ever made, no?)

So.. now that we see ~ What we Are/ and have Been: how many of 'us' plan to become authentic humans, next?
Hmm?


Nobody Knoze..


Yet.