An Arab proverb has it. "Whom the gods would destroy, they first drive mad." Empires do the same. Through the lens of a life of bin Laden, we follow the US-UK footprint on the Arab world -- fostering reactionary regimes to divide and conquer -- forging pretexts to invade Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine -- and falling prey to a corrupt cult of violence and obscurantism called fascism. In war, the gods themselves go mad. George W. Bush's "war on terrorism" is a folly committed in the name of a foreign state's self-interest. That state is Israel.

How the U.S. became an instrument of Israeli foreign policy, and how this subordination is responsible for the official bigotry toward Arabs and Muslims, is the main theme of this book. Only from this perspective can the "war on terrorism" be fully understood.