“…(W)hy does almost all public discussion in the U.S. about the goals of the Islamist terrorists assume that they are driven by hatred for the domestic political and social arrangements of Americans? Because most Americans cannot imagine foreigners not being interested in the way they do things, let alone using the U.S. as a tool to pursue other goals entirely.” — Gwynne Dyer (Toronto Star)
Related:
The Misunderstood Osama: “The anonymous CIA analyst who wrote Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror managed to preserve his cloak of anonymity until two weeks before his book’s publication—a stealth operation that made the agency’s WMD spycraft look masterful by comparison. The Boston Phoenix reports that the analyst’s name is Michael Scheuer.
He spent three years as the Counterterrorist Center’s Osama Bin Laden station chief. In Imperial Hubris, Scheuer argues that Americans misunderstand Bin Laden and al-Qaida and have little sense that we’re losing the terror war.” (Slate)
