[ConsistentLibertarian]

"[1] The only people who use violence are rogues or nonstate actors with no stakes in the system, such as Osama bin Laden. [2] Basically, he is in a civil war with the Saudi ruling family. But, he says to himself, `The Saudi rulers are insignificant. To destroy them you have to hit the hegemonic power that props them up ? America.'

[3] Hence, 9/11."

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Which is the stupid part? (1), (2) or (3)?

[Oldie]

The whole context: ... poor Osama didn't get to vote on globalization and on how American culture is seeping ... that's the problem. Boo Hoo

[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.