This guy could be a faculty member at Harvard for Heaven's sake.
The US is wrong, and the Arabs and Muslims are only fighting back 'cause we're over there kicking down their front doors.
Baloney.
What about Kobar Towers? What about the embassy attacks? What about the attack on the Cole? What about September 11th?
The radical Muslim world declared war on us, and we didn't take it seriously until George Bush became president.
Mr. Clinton did nothing - and they still hit us over and over again.
Another ankle biting flea on the president's ankles.
It's not that simple. They're repressed by tyrannical governments that in large part we support, like Saudi Arabia. They see attacking us as a way to have a fighting chance to damage their own government.
What about Kobar Towers? What about the embassy attacks? What about the attack on the Cole? What about September 11th?
All four operations done by less than 100 fanatics total. Those types of extremist will always need to be dealt with using lethal force, and Clinton is to blame for letting a little problem spiral into a colossal one. But the reason that there's more AQ now than before 9/11 has to do more than people 'hating our freedoms'.
The global jihad is a complex social phenomenon, and dismissing it all as unintelligible madness, we'll miss opportunities on how to combat it effectively.