May 02, 2011

Hitchens on Bin Laden's death

Worth reading.
There's perhaps some slight satisfaction to be gained from this smoking-gun proof of official Pakistani complicity with al-Qaida, but in general it only underlines the sense of anticlimax. After all, who did not know that the United States was lavishly feeding the same hands that fed Bin Laden? There's some minor triumph, also, in the confirmation that our old enemy was not a heroic guerrilla fighter but the pampered client of a corrupt and vicious oligarchy that runs a failed and rogue state.

1 Comments:

Blogger The Other Front said...

Pakistan's got some 'splainin to do.

Or find a new sugar daddy.

May 2, 2011 at 8:03 PM  

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