According to family members, by the end of his life Osama bin Laden was telling his family to “Go to Europe and America and get a good education.”
I guess that explains why we finally realized we knew where he was and went and killed him.
Or maybe why the Paks let us.
But what about the obligation to take up the cause of jihad and violence and crush the evil doers in the West?
Never mind about all that, Osama supposedly told his children and grandchildren. “Do not follow me down the road to jihad,” he said. “You have to study and live in peace and don’t do what I am doing or what I have done.”
His kids should have no trouble following his advice to study in America, by the way. Just think of the essays they will be able to write on their college applications.
Some pieces self-snark. |