I think if you read the book the ideology is based on, that’s entirely true. Doesn’t mean that our public policy hasn’t been fundamentally shaped by it in the past decade and a half or more. And it was a two way construction, as people like Bin Laden operated from a similar set of values and ideas, that the only hope for a full decolonization of the middle east was through doubling down on what he viewed as proper Islamic values, enforced by force, pushing out who he viewed as colonial forces in the holy land.
