I've often heard that the Arab view of history is that it is open and living. To them, the Crusades never ended and it could have been yesterday as far as they're concerned. The Gulf War was simply a continuation of something on which the book had never been closed. You know, everything is in living memory.
Consider how interesting it was, then, when last week Taliban leaders called for America to "forget" about the 9/11 attacks.
Another example of their lack of ability to reason. They are all about negotiating the upper hand to their advantage, right or wrong has no bearing to these morally challanged vermin.