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160 | Peter Bergen: What the Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden Means for the Future of U.S. Foreign Policy

The Realignment

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What Did America Not Understand About Bin Laden?

Yoan: One of our big mistake, i think, in terms of misunderstanding genlardan mit say, a lot of amer s, and the bush administration in particular, was to project on him all sorts of things that he wasn't really interested in. He didn't have a cultural critique or of the united states. It was really a foreign policy critique. And compare on to his broad, actual concern for my interpretation, which was a us. Presence in saudi arabia in the broader middle east. So what was he actually saying? Cause there ben these incidents on twitter. I don't do too much arm psychologizing, because i let the reader decide whether

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