Have you read Scheuer's book?
Yes, I have. He makes many good points (mixed in with sheer blithering nonsense). I've scanned and OCR'd the sections dealing with the terrorist use of the internet (my interest) and am thinking of posting excerpts from the book as "Imperial Hubris: How the CIA Has Been Helping Al-Qaeda Win the War of Terror"
Scheuer is all over the place, and has some brutal ideas.
To the simplistic dichotomy it's what we are vs. it's what we do he claims it's merely "it's what we do". This is appealing to lefties hoping to have their "root cause" prejudices affirmed but the book itself shows that some of "what we do" is unappealing to no domestic faction. Then, even more confusingly, the shows jihadism is a lot about "what we are" - for example his mentions that Osama wants us to convert to Islam.
The anti-Israel angle might be his attempt to increase book sales to the anti-semitic left, but here in the link above it seems heartfelt. And his book describes the worldwide ambitions of Osama and Jihadism, yet without criticism doesn't discuss why accusations that we help Russia and India in Chechnya and Kashmir are wrong.
Even his title is confusing. "Imperial Hubris" seems to evoke the idea of a reaction to American Empire, yet he uses it to criticize Americans who can only think Osama must be only reacting to us because we think, e.g., we're the center of the world.
He's all over the place and he's loopy. Plus many of his so-called revelations are merely taken from Osama's communiques and videos to which he gives no credit.