Forget Islam: bin Laden is no more than a spoilt rich kid (MUST READ!)

Robert Harris, the British author of "Fatherland" and "Enigma" nails it again. Just another British contribution to the war effort. ;)

Perhaps we ought to send this article to Osama and tell him - "we know what you are".

Regards, Ivan

But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, "This was their finest hour."

Today is Trinity Sunday. Centuries ago words were written to be a call and a spur to the faithful servants of Truth and Justice: "Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valour, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for us to perish in battle than to look upon the outrage of our nation and our altar. As the Will of God is in Heaven, even so let it be." - Winston Churchill, 1940

This then, my lords and gentlemen, is the message which we send forth today to all states and nations, bound or free, to all the men in all the lands who care for freedom's cause. To our Allies and well-wishers in Europe, to our American friends and helpers drawing ever closer in their might across the ocean, this is the message-lift up your hearts, all will come right. Out of depths of sorrow and sacrifice will be born again the glory of mankind. - Winston Churchill, 1941

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7 posted on 10/08/2001 11:59:01 PM PDT by MadIvan

Excellent article, thanks for posting it! I knew that name Robert Harris sounded familiar, I've read his books.

8 posted on 10/09/2001 12:02:38 AM PDT by Utah Girl

He certainly is! And instead of spending all that money feeding the Muslims he cares so much about, he uses every red cent to cause bloodshed!

9 posted on 10/09/2001 12:04:20 AM PDT by brat

wow, thats a good article thanks

10 posted on 10/09/2001 12:04:50 AM PDT by GeronL

And so they grow up, these socially awkward, intelligent misfits, looking for an outlet for their frustrations and, in 999,999 cases in a million, they somehow settle uneasily into ordinary life: the ill-tempered loner in the bedsit, the crank who writes green-inked letters to television celebrities, the theorist who reduces life to a single conspiracy theory (the Jews run the world, the blacks are undermining the white race, there are alien bodies in cold storage in New Mexico).

What's interesting is that this describes Timothy McVeigh and the Unabomber as well. Both smart middle class kids who went terribly wrong.

11 posted on 10/09/2001 12:05:11 AM PDT by garbanzo

What a read, thanks for the ping, good sir.

12 posted on 10/09/2001 12:05:17 AM PDT by StoneColdGOP

Yes, exactly, and he brings to mind some other spoiled rich kids, Che Guevara and Carlos the "Jackal".

13 posted on 10/09/2001 12:06:59 AM PDT by AmericanVictory

14 posted on 10/09/2001 12:08:05 AM PDT by Travis McGee

What is to be done with such people?

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Many become liberal Democrats etc. trying to correct the world from the dissatisfaction that has befallen them.

15 posted on 10/09/2001 12:08:20 AM PDT by RLK

The bin Ladens sound like the Islamic Kennedys.

The photograph of bin Laden ...taken in Sweden in 1971.

Anyone have that picture?

16 posted on 10/09/2001 12:11:17 AM PDT by PRND21

I've seen that picture but don't have it myself - bin Laden as a child looks, well...normal, actually. Maybe a little awkward.

Regards, Ivan

17 posted on 10/09/2001 12:14:54 AM PDT by MadIvan

Robert 'Alton' Harris was the most recent murderer executed in the leftist state of CA.

18 posted on 10/09/2001 12:15:49 AM PDT by onyx

And so they grow up, these socially awkward, intelligent misfits, looking for an outlet . . . writes green-inked letters to television celebrities, the theorist who reduces life to a single conspiracy theory (the Jews run the world, the blacks are undermining the white race, there are alien bodies in cold storage in New Mexico).

A good read but approaches the same kind of dangerous over-simplification of which he writes.

During this time of patriotic imperitve we shun the question, "Why?".

But we ignore at our own peril the study of the "pathology of hate".

19 posted on 10/09/2001 12:16:39 AM PDT by Phil V.

The article persuades me. I think BinLaden currently sees himself as Allah, particularly after his successes on September 11, 2001.

20 posted on 10/09/2001 12:18:08 AM PDT by onyx

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