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To: Shermy

Interesting read.


3 posted on 06/30/2004 11:35:10 AM PDT by headsonpikes (Spirit of '76 bttt!)
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To: headsonpikes

I read a lot of his first book. He uses "imperial hubris" there in a way different than Gore Vidal, and in a different way I think his initial interviewers expected. The "hubris" is not imperial, but in general a view among all political stripes to expect Arabs and such to think one way or another.

But he's got some quirks. He has the "they hate us for our foreign policy" angle that lefties love, but then goes on about cultural values and such and their fears about losing them. Also, his litany of foreign policy hatreds is bizarre. Sure, some nuts think "we" have helped India in Kashmir and Russia in Chechnya, but that's a very fringe opinion, I haven't seen any Pak jihadis make such a claim. And he doesn't question whether thee beliefs are true or not.

Another quirk, in his first book, is his expressed astonishment that AQ doesn't attack Israel - he even suggests why they should for PR sake. I take this fact as for what it is - evidence of Osama's world wide view and ambitions.

Interesting, nontheless.

He has some bombastic and overly gung-ho type ideas.


4 posted on 06/30/2004 11:53:29 AM PDT by Shermy
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