"Imperial Hubris"

One of the basic premises of this new book out by an "anonymous" 22-year CIA veteran is that basically, the Bush Administration has played right into the hands of Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda. Now there's something I believe.

Bush says, "They hate us for our freedom" and then promptly begins to withdraw many of the basic freedoms from us, including the comfortable ability to say one disagrees with the president (because anyone who questions is aiding and abetting said terrorists). He orders an attack of Afghanistan and we make a horrible mess there without accomplishing much. Then Iraq (Osama hated Saddam, and we kindly took Saddam out of power). Now our every action seems to garner increasing hatred within the Muslim world, giving al Qaeda and a host of other organizations the ammunition they need for new recruits.