Understanding Bin Laden's Strategy

Pericles at Daily Kos has a tremendous write-up about how we're playing right into Bin Laden's overall strategy for defeating us. My only nitpick is that I don't buy into the idea that Al Qaeda purposely refrained from attacking us before the election. I actually think an Al Qaeda attack before the election would've given Bush an even bigger win, and I think Bin Laden knows that (and I'm not sure I would've believed that before last week either).