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...evidence that claims of success there have been thoroughly fictionalized. Inexplicably, however, director Christian Johnston chose to fictionalize his exposé. The tapes chronicle the efforts of filmmaker Don Larson (George Calil) and his translator, Wali Zarif (Wali Razaqui) to record and possibly join the hunt for Osama bin Laden. The foibles in the fiction prompt a host of questions that distract from the substantive reflection that the film would otherwise promote. Johnston aims to debunk the myths of the Afghani situation, but should have realized that original footage of a war zone’s unseen chaos speaks...
...France, with street vendors selling, artists drawing, and in a characteristically hilarious bit of self-reference, a puppeteer working a marionette to the amusement of schoolchildren. Meanwhile, a young smiling boy walks down the road eating a chocolate ice cream bar when he spots none other than Osama bin Laden and a group of his cronies holding a beeping, blinking metal chest...
...conflict with the Palestinians. "America's policy choices have consequences," the Commission notes. "Right or wrong, it is simply a fact that American policy regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and American actions in Iraq are dominant staples of popular commentary across the Arab and Muslim world." Bin Laden has constantly sought to justify his attacks on the U.S. in light of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, hoping to shackle the widespread Muslim identification with the Palestinians to his own agenda. The war on terror is, the 9/11 Commission notes, fundamentally, a battle for the hearts and minds of the Muslim world...
Kristol criticized Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., contrasting the “broad conclusions” President Bush drew from the terrorist attacks with the “narrow conclusions” of Kerry, who has emphasized the need to hunt Osama bin Laden himself rather than take on Middle Eastern states such as Iraq...
...Kerry is elected, Kristol claimed, Kerry will have no choice but to go after broader targets than bin Laden himself. Transatlantic relations will deteriorate more than ever when Kerry is unable to garner French and German support for American involvement in the Middle East, Kristol said...