“Do not follow me down the road to jihad. Go and get a good education in the West”: Osama Bin Laden’s extraordinary instructions to his young children. So say his in-laws. Did he come to realize his path was a dead end or are they just saying what they think people want to hear? Either way, it may give some food for thought.
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May have been the only relevant thing Osama ever said before meeting his maker!
I am not so sure he "met" his maker..Something tells me its warm where he went, very warm.
I would say scorching hot. Not that I care to find out.
Maybe you're both right, if you know what I mean.
Waiting for the movie "Osombie" to come out.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/osombie-axis-evil-dead-brings-osama-bin-laden-back-zombie-article-1.1019520?localLinksEnabled=false
Even Bin Laden realized that shoveling camel dung isn't much of a career.
Why take a chance? Just deep six them with daddy.
Would that be leagues or fathoms, I forget?
Leagues or fathoms? Irrelevant. Just as long as we are making shark turds.
Oh this is Gonna break Olivia's heart....."what do you mean give up Jihad?"...She is gonna have a full blown breakdown now. One of her hero's jumped ship, she might even give up her Burka bag.
remember in the 80's when reagan called the mujahadeen freedom fighters!? here's a short refresher for those who believe reagan was jesus christ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipszh14WPFY
1. I get your point, though I did not watch the linked video (seriously, what's the point?). I thought at the time, and still do, that we would have been better off helping the USSR. I think that the USA vs Russia obsession sometimes blinded (and still does) both sides to some of the realities of the world. Not the least of which is the reality of the Islamic world. It would have greatly benefitted the rest of the world in the long run to have the USSR's godless influence over that segment of humanity for a few generations.
2. Although the problem with #1 is that with the USSR being more knee-jerk in the Cold War scenario, if we were to help them, they would probably have immediately switched sides just to be against us.
3. But your main error is in lumping "The Mujahedeen" together. The fact is that there were at least 7 or 8 different groups fighting the USSR, and they all had different priorities if not altogether different goals. Some could have been legitimately called "freedom fighters" in OUR understanding of the words, while others were certainly freedom fighters in the Muslim Brotherhood sense (also sometimes known as the Orwellian sense, as in "freedom to be a slave").
No I don't believe he was Jesus Christ. That is such a moronic thing to say. Reagan like many believed the hype we have come to pay for it.
No, Reagan wasn't some kind of supernatural savior. He was just the best president we've had in my 55 years on the planet.
Such was the success of taqqiya. That the Afghan war to free themselves from the oppression of the giant forces of the USSR served the West's purposes should not be overlooked. While your point isn't lost on the people here, no one, least of all himself, thought Reagan was some sort of deity.