CBS comes out on June 8, not sure when the interview airs though. Will of course let you know.
Saint Ying: I can only judge you based on what you say. I find you arrogant without any justification for that arrogance as you seem to be incredibly ignorant on the subject matter. It is as if you see petty insults and arrogance as a substitute for knowledge.
There's little incentive for me to spell out my position more clearly than I already have because a) I don't think you have the knowledge background to appreciate it and 
Even if you did, you would not necessarily agree with it. The fact that you would lump all terrorism together speaks volumes.
Let me give you a tip: Terrorism is a tactic. It's not a philosophy. It's not a movement. It's a tactic. Bush's "war on terrorism" is misnamed either for political purposes (i.e. as to not offend any particular group) or because he wasn't sharp enough to figure out the terrorism is just a tactic. Terrorists are groups who practice this tactic and they have many different means and purposes.
My position is one possible position one could take knowing the breadth of facts on this particular issue. The terrorists who are actively trying to kill Americans make no secret of who they are and why they do. And the more someone bothers to research their motives, the more one is inclined to conclude that they're just a pathetic hate group.
The fact you couldn't grasp the KKK analogy told me that you really don't understand what's going on. From the KKK's point of view, the ghastly things they did were perfectly justified. Similarly, to Al Qaeda, the ghastly things they do are justified. The main difference is that people like you, who would never support the KKK, are willing to help rationalize the behavior of Al Qaeda because you hate America so much.
The world that Al Qaeda would imagine would be one devoid of personal freedom. Extremist left-wingers like you complain about the most trivial losses of freedom or more accuratley, th emost trivial IMAGINED losses of freedom (your bitching and moaning on-line doesn't put you in danger here in the USA, but in a Taliban ruled USA you would be in danger). That's why people like you rarely have any influence, because you have no perspective. It's people like you that equate Bush to the Taliban because he's religious. Such comparisons demonstrate a far-reaching ignorance on what the Taliban was and how millions of people around the world have to live. Americans enjoy a level of freedom that few in world history have enjoyed. That freedom, however, has many negative side-effects and does require traits such as tolerance (for instance, I tolerate your point of view, and though you would obviously snuff me out if you could based on your obvious intolerance towards opinions not of your own).
In short, Al Qaeda is just a hate mongering group of violent thugs and it's not necessary to "understand" them any more than we need to "understand" why racist groups like the KKK lynched innocent African Americans. The goal of our government should be to a) Eliminate these groups as best it can and Change the environment which creates them (such as bringing freedom to the middle east in the form of a liberal democracy if possible).
That is my opinion on the matter anyway.
