Mission Accomplished

It seems that back in 1998 when Osama bin Laden was outlining his objectives one of them was that oil should cost $144 a barrel just like it does now. Of course one assumes OBL had real rather than nominal prices in mind, so we still do have a bit of a ways to go.

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2008/07/mission-accomplished/49109/