Bernard Lewis has a take on the war on terror that lines up pretty well with mine. Makes me feel pretty good, as I think most people recognize Lewis as the pre-eminent scholar on the Mideast.
It's interesting to recall that bin Laden collaborated with the Americans against the Soviets. Yet there are those who maintain that he never would have cooperated with Saddam, a fellow Sunni muslim.
He does fit in nicely with your pantheon of righteous role models;
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Zionist
Denial of Armenian genocide
Ottoman apologist
Anti-Islamist
Never set foot in the middle east for 50 years
Regime change agitator
Dick Cheney's favorite historian
"perhaps the most significant intellectual influence behind the invasion of Iraq", who urged regime change in Iraq to provide a jolt that — he argued — would "modernize the Middle East".
What a visionary! Perhaps he should stick to revisionist history and keep out of the hopeless conjecture market.