disaster movies, most of which end up with buildings blowing up, the more the better.  (For example, in the most recent Terminator movie, <i>The Rise of the Machines</i>, starring the current governor of California, scarcely any standing structure shown on camera survives for more than a few minutes, and the movie winds up with a nuclear holocaust.)  
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Bin Laden's choice of spectacle obviously was contrived to match this stock scene. He lacked any capacity even to slightly dent the military power of