I think it was Fred MacAulay on Mock the Week (a UK current affairs comedy programme on BBC for those outside the UK) who said:

Al-Qaeda must be kicking themselves, they've spent years blowing themselves up tring to bring about the fall of Western Capitalism and it turns out all they had to do was take out a few mortgages.

(I also heard it on Clive Anderson's Chat Room).

Hopefully they heard that comment as it might stop our idiotic politicians going on about saving us from the Evil Ones(TM).