Wealth is relative. He has the wealth (or his organization does) that he stage terrorist attacks, but he lives in hiding in caves or moving constantly between villages in a 3rd world tribal area. As much as I’d like to kill that sunnofabitch a thousand times over, he is no rich man living it up while others die. He is hardcore, which is why we haven’t gotten him (Saddam? Now he was a rich fat bastard, no wonder we caught him so easy).

I’m still not sure how anything thus said above has anything to do with the liberal/conservative divide. Maybe that the liberals acknowledge that the situation that DullMentalRacket talks about, and the fact that the west supports some of the religious leaders (in Saudi Arabia), or supported the non-religious leaders that did the exact same thing (the Shah of Iran), that it is easy for malcontent leaders to use the west, and America in particular, as scapegoats for the fanatics in the middle east who are venting their collective frustration at the world basically leaving them out of the prosperity of the 20th and 21st centuries, while at the same time exploiting their natural resources by making exclusive deals with elites who give none of it to building the infrastructure and prosperity of their nation as a whole.

So liberals admit we are being hoisted on our own petards, but offer no easy solutions, Conservatives pretend it’s all some onerous outsider’s completely unprovoked animosity is to blame, and offer simple-minded solutions that don’t work. So either way we’re screwed.