[lasereye]

I don't know what the spread of U.S. culture has to do with the Saudi royal family. They have run Saudi Arabia as an Islamic theocracy, largely insulated from western culture. Outside of the Taliban era in Afghanistan, it's probably the purest example of an Islamic nation in history.

[ConsistentLibertarian]

You must have misread the article.

He offers two explanations why foreign resentment of American power has not led to organized military resistence.

He then qualifies his second explanation --Global economic interdependence -- by noting that it doesn't apply to "rogues or nonstate actors with no stakes in the system, such as Osama bin Laden".

He never suggests that Osama is motivated by the spread of US Culture. On the contrary he states that Osama is motivated by a desire to unseat the House of Saud, and his interest in attacking its partron, the United States, is as a means to that end.

Note that an essay with this structure was described as particularly stupid. I find that ironic given the misinterpretations offered here.