That long odyssey is not so in the world of bin Laden or an Iranian theocrat — or the ignorant who stream out of the madrassas and Friday fundamentalist harangues along the Afghan-Pakistani border.

那漫长的征程并不像一伊朗的神权主义者那样，或是一昧者那样疯狂的叫嚣，也不像星期五时的原教旨主义者在和巴基斯坦边界上所做的长篇大论的说教。