As I read it, he's falling hook line and sinker for a suicidal game plan set up by Bin Laden or whoever organised September 11th. One prime goal being to set up a division with the USA and a few cronies on one side, and the rest of the world turned into enemies. A few regimes being overthrown and a few thousand (or even a gfew million) people being killed, thta's just part of the game. You sacrifice pieces when you are playing chess, even main pieces.