After watching the interview I can say that he has a partial point to make. The point is he is missing is that Bin Laden's objective was to strike at the United States symbols for Democracy..The World Trade Center, The Pentagon and God can only guess where else he was aiming planes for. True it is not the responsibility of the United States to "Liberate" countries and overthrow governments that we do not like. But it is the responsibility of the United States to protect it's citizens from threats both foreign and domestic. What he is missing is that these terrorist organization are supported and sheltered by countries that do want to do harm to us and therefore must be subject to guilt by association and harboring criminals that are a clear and present danger to the safety and security of the United States. This philosophy is not just an American philosophy but an international reality. If Bin Laden had flown jets into the Kremlin I guarantee and would support fully Putin or Medevev doing whatever they needed to do to protect it's citizens from these international criminals that seem to think that violence is the only way to force people to obey there extremist agenda. I fully understand and support his voice for peaceful solutions to international disagreements but the reality of it all is simple. Al Qaeda and the Taliban do not want peace. They want the destruction of the United States. I applaud his sincere opinion but if he was in The World Trade center watching that jet come at him with his wife and kids I can guarantee he would not be doing this interview today. He would be still in uniform wanting justice for those that lost their lives to a madman that refuses to seek peaceful discussions. Bin Laden doesn't care about discussion. He cares about his agenda and that's all. Once America has the criminals that committed the crime we will leave and their will be peace once again. We do not occupy. It is not what freedom is about.

Geoff Millard states: "we did not go in tactically" Check your facts, my friend. If strikes by US Special Forces and CIA teams followed by strategic bombing concentrated on Taliban military targets and training camps doesn't count as tactical, then I don't know what does. As ham-fisted as the US is, they didn't just level cities. He has already been rebuffed with regard to his comments on the justification for Afghanistan. Quite to the contrary to what he states, most international experts consider Afghanistan to be a justified war. And Dean, why the hell would you trust what OBL, of all people, says? He has vested interest in disrupting the trust that Americans have in their government.