Al Qaeda's Fantasy Ideology:
Demonstrates the Clausewitzian perception of war (as rational and instrumented for political gain) as unsuitable in the context of militant Muslim terrorism (UT at first glance this will support your argument, and to some extent I think you are right about imposing my perception onto theirs... goes back to whether you consider the speaker as important as what is said). This is why I do not agree with the war (yes of course it was to deflect attention from 9/11 and thus a direct result of it), and why GWB doesn't understand who or what he is fighting against. How can you win a war when you don't know your enemy?
America to them represents satan - they are fighting a fantastical, religious battle which we are attempting to counter with bombs and occupation. By trying to establish a democracy in Iraq we are merely preparing for the emergance of a new
legal brand of terrorism (Hitler, Mussolini). History, history.