http://www.propeace.net/node/979 Comments for "Charlie Rose Interview, tonight, Jan 10" en http://www.propeace.net/node/979#comment-421 <p>Oops, Rose's interview of Bergen got bumped late in the day in favor of coverage of the Alito hearings. Perhaps he'll return to Bergen in another upcoming show. I'll be watching for it.</p> <p>Mike</p> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 08:42:51 -0500 MTOLincoln comment 421 at http://www.propeace.net http://www.propeace.net/node/979 Charlie Rose will be interviewing Peter Bergen tonight (11 pm, ch 2; repeated Wed, noon, ch 16) on Osama bin Laden and our war on terrorism. You can submit questions for them to address at www.CharlieRose.com. Peter Bergen, author of Holy War, once interviewed bin Laden. Bergen has also spoken out about how the Bush administration has misrepresented the concerns and motives of al Qaeda. They don't object to our freedom (as bin Laden has said), but to our policies in the Middle East. This would be a good opportunity to maybe have some input (via submitting questions)and to also update one's information about what our "war" is, and is not, about. About Bergen: U.S. leaders would prefer to muddle bin Laden's motives for attacking the United States. Yet if they want to know why bin Laden has dedicated his life to killing Americans and their allies, they don't even need to ask him. He has written many manifestos and has done interviews with Western media. From these writings and interviews, one can conclude only that bin Laden's major grievance is with U.S. foreign policy. According to Peter Bergen, one of the few Western journalists to interview him, bin Laden rarely condemns permissive U.S. culture. Also, he rarely speaks of the evils of democracy as such. Instead, he is especially incensed by U.S. support for corrupt regimes in the Islamic world and the U.S. military presence in the Islamic lands of the Persian Gulf, a presence he would like to dislodge. A lesser issue is his opposition to U.S. support and aid for Israel. Recently, al-Qaeda also has attacked U.S. allies, but only to drive a wedge between them and the United States in order to stymie U.S. overseas intervention -- especially in Iraq. Also: in his book Holy War, Inc., "What [bin Laden] condemns the United States for is simple: its policies in the Middle East." Rather than acknowledge the realities of bin Laden's war on America, Bush attempted to create and perpetuate a war-on-freedom myth. Mike O'Brien http://www.propeace.net/node/979#comments Tue, 10 Jan 2006 12:56:31 -0500 MTOLincoln 979 at http://www.propeace.net