The former will take some ability to reason, the latter won't.
It was too late last night for me to be use reason ... reason usually insists on going to sleep around midnight ... that was the reason for the bump ... that and that the article is pretty long for late night reading.
Unfortunately, any article that promotes anything other than the 'lone gunman' approach to Oklahoma City will be difficult for people to accomodate. The idea that it was domestic terrorism has become an argument against profiling, as in "see, not all terrorists are from the Middle East." That, and the fact that McVeigh went to the grave without mentioning any other influences/participants (other than Nicholls) will make this a tough sell.
I will come back and comment on the article (if I have anything to add) after I digest it.