[Max Combined]

"It's got debating points for the American people to think about and decide."

Is is supposed to be some great debating point that the Arabs want to destroy Israel? Do you think a guy has to work at the CIA for 22 years to come up with this point?

Name the one most compelling and original debating point that this guy has come up with in his book.

[CobaltBlue]

Is is supposed to be some great debating point that the Arabs want to destroy Israel?

No, that's not his point. His point is that bin Laden wants to destroy the US for specific reasons. One is our support for Israel. One is our having troops stationed on the Saudia Arabian peninsula. One is Iraq. One is our support for autocratic dictators in the Middle East.

These seem pretty obvious to me, but then I've actually read bin Laden's speeches. But still when I read people talking about bin Laden's reasons for attacking us, they talk about abstractions like "modernity", that he hates us because we are "free," stuff like that. Scheuer suggests that we take bin Laden at his word.