Lileks On bin Laden

The latest Bleat has this money quote:

He’s on the same page as the would-be First Lady, proclaiming the war in Iraq a “war for oil,” and complains that not enough people were killed during the recent Afghan elections. And we’re the ones waging war on Muslims. Got that? We kick out the theocrats, hold an election for the first time in a region that was old and busted around the time Nero was stringing his first lute, and the election takes place without bands of jihadists careening around town gunning down women who want to cast a ballot. To bin Laden, this is bad. C’mon, people! If we’re going to be serious about the war against the infidel, we have to get down to killing believers in numbers that count!

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