It seems to have been brilliant. If they hate us because we are free they have managed to invoke a war on the freedoms of American Citizens by their own government.
The right protected by the 2nd Amendment protects all our other rights, and Ashcroft and Co. has made it clear that an individual's right to keep bear arms is guaranteed by the Constitution . Granted, gun laws are still both way too numerous and restrictive, but you must admit that the situation is far better now that Clinton & Reno have been put out to pasture.
So how, may I ask, have our freedoms diminished since 9/11? The ridiculous War on Drugs continues as before. Email spying is also nothing new (Echelon and various other mass data collecting systems have been around for many years).