Rome - Outspoken US writer Gore Vidal has denounced Washington for waging what he called "a perpetual war for perpetual peace" and said American aggression was only nurturing fresh hatreds.
In a scathing attack on US foreign policy, Vidal told Reuters that the United States would have been better served trying to buy peace with Osama bin Laden rather than sending in the bombers to try and kill him.
Vidal, one of contemporary America's harshest critics, has had trouble finding an audience for his views back home and is publishing his latest collection of essays in his adoptive country, Italy.
"Anyone can describe what happened but you have to think to realise why Osama bin Laden did what he did. This is hard work and it will make you very unpopular," he said in an interview on Thursday.
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'For someone who does not wish us well, that was brilliantly timed' "Bin Laden strikes at America at the moment we are entering a world depression...it is the most fragile moment in the West. For someone who does not wish us well that was brilliantly timed," Vidal said.
For more than half a century, Vidal, 76, has made it his business to shock the US establishment as a political, cultural and social commentator and in his latest work he criticises the government and media for not trying to explain the reasons behind the September 11 bloodshed.
The front cover of his new book "The End of Liberty - Towards a New Totalitarianism" shows a picture of the head of the Statue of Liberty with its mouth gagged by a US flag.
One of the essays details a series of US attacks on various countries since the end of World War Two. The piece was originally commissioned by an American magazine following the September 11 attacks - but refused to publish it because of its uncompromising criticism.
"I've listed in this little book about four hundred strikes that the government has made on other countries.
'A really great nation would buy him'
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