] "And the genius that lies behind it, because he's not a ] man who rants against our freedoms, our liberties, our ] voting, our %u2014 the fact that our women go to school. ] He's not the Ayatollah Khomeini; he really doesn't care ] about all those things. To think that he's trying to rob ] us of our liberties and freedom is, I think, a gross ] mistake. What he has done, his genius, is identify ] particular American foreign policies that are offensive ] to Muslims whether they support these martial actions or ] not %u2014 our support for Israel, our presence on the ] Arabian Peninsula, our activities in Afghanistan and ] Iraq, our support for governments that Muslims believe ] oppress Muslims, be it India, China, Russia, Uzbekistan. ] Bin Laden has focused the Muslim world on specific, ] tangible, visual American policies. |