The Bush administration, having proclaimed a war on terror, invaded and occupied countries, and yet failed to see that these events were being linked in the eyes of people in the region. Glued to Al Jazeera and other Arab satellite channels, the various battles of the “war on terror” came to be viewed as a single chain of events in a grand plot against Islam.
对于美国当局而言，他们视发生在阿富汗、伊拉克、巴勒斯坦以及黎巴嫩的真主党的反恐战争的每个行动都是互不相关、各成一体的。布什政府向恐怖主义宣战，入侵并占领了不同的国家，但是却没有看到，中东地区的人民把这些事件连接了起来。他们目不转眼睛地观看半岛电视台和其他阿拉伯卫星频道，并把“反恐战争”中的各场战役视为针对伊斯兰惊天大阴谋中的系列事件。