Originally posted by SLY
Imperialism is what gives people like Bin Laden his strength in gathering followers around him ... Actualy Bin Laden is an american made extremist, and unfortunately people in the arab & islamic world are the ones who get the blame for his actions.

No, it's quite common knowledge here that the CIA trained him when he was fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan and that fanaticism was a large part of that training. bin Laden won't admit it, but the US does.

As to imperialism - that accusation holds little water. As I said before, does the US buy or sell Kuwaiti oil? Does Japan and Germany go along with everything the US says?

Think critically of the critics, they're just as likely to have alterior motives as anybody else.