The Robin Hood framing of bin Laden is a delusion at both ends

Evidence

This vision, comforting though it may be to those who hold it, is flawed at both ends. King John was not a democrat, and Robin Hood was not a terrorist. We live in a different world, and at a different level of reality. Those who cherish such delusions will sooner or later suffer a painful but salutary awakening. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1780 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The bin Laden as Robin Hood framing conflates distinct eras and moral categories — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 1780

Broader Connections

• The bin Laden as Robin Hood framing conflates distinct eras and moral categories #expands (0.95) — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1780