Motorcycle Diaries

This movie sounds good. Will Osama one day have this status? I've started to read Imperial Hubris, written by an anonymous intelligence officer, who thinks we are fundamentally misunderstanding Bin Laden's message and methodology. We are blind to think he hates us because of who we are, but instead ought to understand he hates specific policies that he says are anti-Muslim. His war, he repeats, is a defensive one, one that mandates all Muslim's fight when Muslim's are being attacked. His most consistant position is that Muslim's are being attacked by the United States as a global hegemon, supporting Israel and corrupt Middle Eastern regimes to extract oil.

Gee, put that way, he seems almost reasonable. Is that why he's so popular?