I believe that in this way-too-long essay, this apologist for Evil demonstrates only his own lack of knowledge of God's Will for us -- and his inability to come to terms with the Absolute certainty that there is both Good and Evil upon the Earth -- and that these were demonstrations of pure and unadulterated Evil!Apologist for evil? Zakaria makes a slew of valid points, a fact with which I am quite sure John Derbyshire would agree. Zakaria makes no apologies for bin Laden. He merely attempts to explain him, and he does a fair job of it.
Simplistic appeals to the "absolute" illuminate nothing.