CNN Fareed Zakaria GPS September 12, 2021 17:03:00
About radical islam. it is real. it is evil. but it has lost the idealogical argument. the real clash of civilizations was never between the west and islam. it was within the world of islam between the existing regimes and their islamic opposition movements and more broadly between moderates and radical religious groups. recall that in osama bin laden's original thought log in 1996, his reason to go for the far enemy, the united states is because of governments inside saudi arabia which were the near enemy and the true focus of bin laden's strategy. the goal was to sweep out dictators which wo...