Cooter said:
I wouldn't say rock... but yes, I'd say his perspective is worth listening to. The perspective of a Middle-East leader, a nation dominated by Islam, on why he thinks America was attacked. It's worth remembering here, he, and no other Iranian state representative, has ever voiced sympathies for Al Queda.
It's impossible to answer, and there's never any excuse for the kind of terrorism that took place on 9/11, but that doesn't mean the question shouldn't be asked time-and-again as to how we got here:
Bin Laden and men like him do talk in extremes (death to Israel, death to America), but their rallying cry would not usher a single follower were it not for US support of certain Arab-world autocratic leaders, and chiefly -- support of Israel on the continued occupation of Palestine, in military matters, and in the United Nations.
From the average recruit's perspective -- the West turns a blind eye to the plight of the Palestinian people (as it has since World War II), but it's more than happy to entangle itself strategically, financially and militarily with Israel's oil-rich neighbours.
So that's one thing people
should consider as to how it happened, what conditions allowed it to happen. As to the who -- again that's an equally valid thing for him to remind people of. Cos it sure as hell, wasn't him.