It was with disbelief that I watched the President announce that OBL had been killed. I asked my husband, is this true...he said yes, they took his DNA. It seemed so unbelievable but also irrelevant. To me, OBL does not represent the charasmatic leader of global terror. In many ways I think he is an intellectual that pointed out absurdities and catalyzed the revolt of the peasant. However, the revolt he started has morphed into somehting more, something that has been taken up by people of varying socioeconomic status and levels of education. People that in many ways benefit from the unevenness that he intially spoke out against.
I call him an intellectual because he was a bit of a poltical ecologist, reflecting on the subjugation of states with geologic resources by captialists. I do not plan to walk down that path because there has been a plethora of research about that topic (ie Kinzer's Overthrow) and his life.
I'm just trying to collect my thoughts...provide a bird's eye view of the uneasy relationship between Islam and the West during the past decade.
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