Well, since no one has answered Rotifer’s question, I’ll take a shot at it….Osama Bin Laden was quoted above singing the praises of Chomsky. Sounds like they had a mutual admiration society. Chomsky’s whole premise on Bin Laden reminds me mightily of the fundamentalist Christians ignoring all of the scientific evidence pointing to evolution and saying that humanity has only been on Earth for the last 6,000 years or so.
And of course, anyone who thinks Bin Laden would have detailed information about all of the goings on of Al Qaeda is living in a TV fantasy world. Bin Laden was a big picture person and financier. He could not possibly have been in the weeds personally supervising to every detail of the plans which are and were being put together. The computers and disk drives found at the compound probably have more concise and accurate information than Bin Laden had about continuing operations. And they don’t have to be tortured to get the information off of them.
Well, since no one has answered Rotifer’s question, I’ll take a shot at it….Osama Bin Laden was quoted above singing the praises of Chomsky. Sounds like they had a mutual admiration society. Chomsky’s whole premise on Bin Laden reminds me mightily of the fundamentalist Christians ignoring all of the scientific evidence pointing to evolution and saying that humanity has only been on Earth for the last 6,000 years or so. And of course, anyone who thinks Bin Laden would have detailed information about all of the goings on of Al Qaeda is living in a TV fantasy world. Bin Laden was a big picture person and financier. He could not possibly have been in the weeds personally supervising to every detail of the plans which are and were being put together. The computers and disk drives found at the compound probably have more concise and accurate information than Bin Laden had about continuing operations. And they don’t have to be tortured to get the information off of them.