But if the Bin Laden project of setting up a war between the whole Muslim world and the USA and its fans were actually achieved, there are a good few nuclear weapons available on "the other side".

And the way that Bush and co have carried this thing forward could ahve been designed to achive that result. (Never forget that crass episode where Bush specifically referred to the "War against Terroir" as "a Crusade".

Short of the nuclear war idea, it is certain that there is a significent and growing number of young Muslims in many countries, including the USA, who are at risk of being fatally alienated from the countries they have grown up in, by what they are seeing on TV and so forth.

What comes next - internment camps in the USA on the World War II Japanese model?

Potentially this is all much more dangerous than Vietnam ever was.