Reply #32: In all of my observation s of Bin Laden [View All]

[Nicholas_J]

from videos and audio tapes, He seem rather quite and of a more shy demeanor than anything else. He displays none of the melodramatic or histrionic behavior that you see in classically megalomanic and sociopath/psychopaths. He does not rant. If you compare tapes oof classic megalomanics from the political arena like Stalin, Hitler, and even Saddam Hussein, you note very different behavior from the behavior that Bin Laden displays.

Your description of Bin Laden and the terrorists as being "IslamoFascists" is another example of the dehumanization of the enemy. More frequewntly than not, such characturisations are charicatures, and bear little resemblance to the truth.

The use of such false impressions of those in power is typical.

As Ben Bella noted in his fight with the French for control over Algeria, when he was asked about the use of terror. "Give me tanks and rockets and artillery and I will fight you the way you expect. Otherwise I will continue to use terror.

There is no differnece between the methods used by bin Laden and the Methods used by Israeli terrorists during the thirties and 40's. and they uised the same justifications as Bin Laden uses. And the same justifications that George Bush and our own Congress use for the death and mutilation of what is approachintg 100,000 civilians in Iraq at this point. Menachem Begin engaged in the same behavior that Bin Laden is now engaging in, He made the same excuses for using those methods. This means that Begin was a terrorist. Sharon was responsible for allowing some of the most brutal massacres of Muslims to ever occur in Lebanon by allowing the Christian Militias for slaughter the inhabitants of two Muslim towns during the Lebanese Civil war. The slaughter was so severe that rather than bury the civilians, they simply bulldozed the two towns and paved over them.
Sharon, a psychopath? In fact, Bin Laden appears to be far mpre stable than the others I mentioned, and far less histrionic and overblown when he speaks. Those in the media, both east and west have all reported that they were most surprised by bin Ladens apparant normality.

I percieve the same. There is nothing in of his speeches to indicate that he is anything by normal, composed and has a great deal of personal self control. You do not see him raging into the microphone and for the camera inorder to give the viewers a show. Such behavior is the mark of the emotionally imbalanced.