Jeffrey Goldberg: The Usual Suspect

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The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
By John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 484 pp., $26)

In October 2002, Osama bin Laden issued a statement in which he analyzed America’s inexhaustible number of sins and prescribed ways of repenting for many of them. The statement was, by the standards of bin Laden’s cave encyclicals, unusually coherent. (Unlike, say, his most recent video, released in early September, which ranged across the sub-prime mortgage crisis, America’s high rate of taxation, and the work of Noam Chomsky–the latter treated sympathetically, of course.) The 2002 letter laid out in a somewhat deliberate fashion bin Laden’s main complaints, and it helped to answer a question that Americans often ask: Do they hate us for who we are, or for what we do? To read the entire article click here

Jeffrey Goldberg: The Usual Suspect

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