The Bin Ladens rose from poverty to privilege; they loyally served the Saudi royal family for generations and became wealthy enough to live and invest in other countries, including the United States. Yet the family struggled to adapt simultaneously to Saudi Arabia's puritanism and America's myriad temptations. This became the context for Osama's overwhelming determination to destroy the United States.
Steve Coll is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and author of the national bestseller Ghost Wars.
The text intro suggests binLaden was obssessed and motivated by his and his family conflict between western "temptations" and abiding by a life in the paradigm of "Saudi Arabia's puritanism". False. bin Laden was motivated to commit horrible terrorism because of US 'security state's' actions&exploitation that made life miserable, deadly, bitter(e.g. daddy bush's leaving US military bases in corrupt kings' nations of the Arabic world)etc for the common Muslims post word war 2. 911 was blowback.
emotionalinvalid 7 months ago
Carlyle Group. Bush & Bin Laden.
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