I have found an interesting analogy claimed between Bin Laden and Goldstein, ( in Orwell's 1984)
Emmanuel Goldstein - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia -
Goldstein is the Osama Bin Laden figure in Orwell’s novel, an extremely elusive person who is never seen, never captured, but believed by the leadership of Oceania to be still alive and hatching his conspiracies: perhaps somewhere beyond the sea, under the protection of his foreign paymasters. Since Goldstein is "never captured, the battle against his crimes, treacheries, sabotages must never end."
The legal scholar Cass Sunstein in his 2009 book Worst-Case Scenarios, coins what he deems the "Goldstein Effect", describing it as "the ability to intensify public concern by giving a definite face to the adversary, specifying a human source of the underlying threat." According to Sunstein, since the U.S. War on Terror has so heavily associated terrorism with Osama Bin Laden, the outrage has intensified in similar ways as displayed in 1984.
So the bogeyman is dead - who/what will replace him?
I don't like to admit this but I feel it will be something/someone far worse.
....but don't be afraid, because that is what is required of you
