RE: Coolbumming's analogy with respect to individuals (not always) serving as an accurate representation for a group at large:

Leaving religion and nationality out of it one can perhaps whittle it down even more and speculate "Geez, maybe all of the Bin Ladens are really not bad, perhaps it's just that bad apple misunderstood son Osama...?" I mean the Bush family has been friends and business associates with the Bin Ladens for YEARS, so how bad can they be? Shafiq bin Laden was together with George Sr at the Ritz Carlton in DC Sept 10th/the morning of the 11th 2001 at a meeting for the Carlye Group (what a coincidence, eh.) And George W's good buddy James Bath, well heck, he was in charge of all of the Bin Laden holdings in TX. Maybe it's just a matter of finding one's self... I mean it took a good while for George W to get his act together... there were his failures drilling for oil as head of Arbusto... and zikes, trading Sammy Sosa sure turned out to be a mistake!!! But now, as the well spoken leader and commander in chief of the US, he's well... uh..... well, perhaps he and Osama both still need a bit of work. So maybe it's best to not look at this whole mess as a "war on terrorism" or "war" at all... A "complicated family quarrel" has a much more civilized tone, don't ya think???