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发帖数: 23482 | 1 There have been many adjectives used to describe Osama bin Laden, but most
of them have been the exact opposite of those that Michael Scheuer uses in
his new biography: “pious, brave, generous, intelligent, charismatic,
patient, visionary, stubborn, egalitarian, realistic.”
Scheuer’s purpose, he insists, is not to praise bin Laden, but to point out
the dangers of misrepresenting the al Qaeda leader. “I think the real
danger,” Scheuer says, “is that we’re fighting an enemy who doesn’t
exist.”
Scheuer, the former chief of the CIA’s bin Laden unit, decided to draw as
much as possible on bin Laden’s own words for his version.
“We keep trying to eliminate an enemy who we say hates our freedoms: women
in the workplace, elections, Budweiser, R-rated movies. What I tried to do
is to quote as extensively as I could from bin Laden’s corpus of material
to show very clearly that he has never railed against our debauched society.
The target of his anger and the target of the Muslim world’s anger is what
the American government does and not what the American people think or how
they live.” |
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