[mburbank]

"without a country, he's a toothless hound. "

I disagree. I think, at large but uncaught, he becomes an iconic image (something he has long laid the groundwork for) that people can hold up and die for without the complications of perhaps disagreeing with his scularism which would no longer be on display or his regional policies which would no longer be in effect. His image can become a rallying point for all forms of anti-american sentiment.

AND he will be another example along with Bin Laden of an Arab Rebel who elludes the Great Satan.