"Not a particularly consequential experience, perhaps, but surely one that has a life in Osama's memory and imaginationand another indication, among many available in his life, that he should be understood not only as a self-isolating radical imbued with millenarian religious narratives, but also as a modern and globalized figure whose experiences and outlook belong very much to our age."

This author seems to be convinced that most people didn't know Bin Laden grew up a rich boy who would have undoubtedly travelled extensively.

If he's surprised that Bin Laden is well-travelled, he's the only person I am aware of who is.

If he had been sent to school overseas and gotten a real education, he probably wouldn't be such an ignorant hate mongering piece of shit today.

think of all the frequent flyer miles the Bin Ladens got on 9.12.1!!!

obama is a cartoon evil criminal mastermind who was a perfect match for our cartoon president, Yosemite Sam.

That was back when he was a hero in the west. Saddam shared the same adulation back in the 80s when he was gassing the Iranians and kurds.

obama is a cartoon evil criminal mastermind who was a perfect match for our cartoon president, Yosemite Sam.

#3 | Posted by donnerboy at 2009-07-01 05:06 PM

Are you sure about that?

OCU

LOL OCU... good eye. I hate that when that happens! I knew that would happen to me someday. Now I sound like FWTHOM or SNIPER! Sheese.

So if I read this correctly, Indiana caused 9/11.

Damn Hoosiers!

So if I read this correctly, Indiana caused 9/11.

no wonder the GOPpers were saying that baghdad was safer than Indiana.

And on that same April 2007 trip in which McCain said Americans could "walk freely" in areas of Baghdad, Indiana Republican Mike Pence concluded that the Iraqi capital was "just like any open-air market in Indiana in the summertime."

Jimmy Carter let him get away!

He was checking out Arbusto Energy with his brother to see if it was a worthy investment.

I am in favor of letting the Saudis put a bounty on Bin Ladin's head. They want him. Moslems worldwide would rather see a just, impartial Islamic trial before they cut the bastard's head off than to see the Great Satan get him.
Folks don't realize that, despite the noise about how many Saudi citizens (actually, subjects) were on the hijacked airliners, they were of the stripe Saudi Arabia had exiled. Bin Ladin was a person who would have been executed had he returned to Saudi soil.

Thats when he came over and got his little boy setup for occidental College and the senate and presidency.

Hello, wake up people Bin Laden's been dead for years. Bhutto confirmed it in a video report in passing, the report itself had nothing to do with Bin Laden. Within a week, Bhutto was assassinated for telling. Nobody was ever charged, but Mr. Rumsfeld was not at all happy.

Please don't shoot the messenger. Sorry neo-cons. Look up the youtube for yourself.

1979? That means Carter let him slip through his fingers and then Clinton let him go when the Sudan government wanted to hand him over. There is a pattern of pussy democrap presidents aiding the terrorists. Will Barry follow the trend?

"1979? That means Carter let him slip through his fingers"

I hope you're joking but its hard to tell since all your posts are this idiotic....

That's when we let a whole bunch of folks from that part of the world in when the Shah was deposed. Wonder if he was part of that crowd?

Fat White Thom is an out-of-work "comedian" desperately trying to impress the editors of the Onion.

"1979? That means Carter let him slip through his fingers"

I hope you're joking but its hard to tell since all your posts are this idiotic....

#15 | Posted by Sully

who was president of America in your world in 1979 Slutty?

#18 - Why, Carter was. Boy, you got him there, Reinsurelaw!

Bin Ladin was a person who would have been executed had he returned to Saudi soil.

Except he did and they didn't.

And its pathetic that rightwing idiots like FWT and reinsure are so ignorant of history that they didn't know bin laden was a hero to Carter and Reagan because he was heroically fighting the nasty soviets.

You guys should rent Charlie Wilson's war. But be careful, there's some boobies in it, so you might want to stock up on holy water to wash your eyes out. And Google "Tora Bora" if you're talking about Presidents letting bin laden walk away.

#18 - Why, Carter was. Boy, you got him there, Reinsurelaw!

#19 | Posted by cbob
you must be the alpha in the relationship with slutty. way to defend your bitch !

"It was monumental, it was historic," retired Pakistani general Hamid Gul, who headed the ISI military spy agency from 1987-1989, said of Reagan's role in defeating the Soviets.

"We were receiving arms and logistics from the CIA, we were partners in this struggle," Gul said, estimating the CIA spent up to $7bn in supplying arms and logistics to Islamic fighters or "jihadis."

Pakistani analyst Hasan Askari Rizvi said Reagan "will always be remembered for American support to these extremist and hardline Islamic groups."

Selling weapons to Iran, paying terrorists for kidnapped victims and bankrolling al queda.

What a guy Saint Reagan was!

FWThom

"If he had been sent to school overseas and gotten a real education, he probably wouldn't be such an ignorant hate mongering piece of shit today.

#1 | Posted by sully"

Yup. He'd be more adept at concealing it.

"Yup. He'd be more adept at concealing it."

LOL. He might still be a inhuman greedy fuck (he is a horrible person after all) but he wouldn't be a bigot about it.

Your willful ignorance with regards to where radical Islam is nurtured doesn't change the reality of it.

Sully, radical islam is nurtured by the CIA, just as bin laden was.

I know more about the subject than you. I know bin laden's favorite book. i know why bin laden went to the america in the first place.

"Sully, radical islam is nurtured by the CIA, just as bin laden was.

I know more about the subject than you. I know bin laden's favorite book. i know why bin laden went to the america in the first place."

You may have done more research on the subject than me but if at the conclusion of that research you decided the the CIA is responsible for radical Islam, I wouldn't say you learned anything.

#21 - Nah, I was just pointing out the canyon in your logical landscape.