BRENDAN O’NEILL: “Bin Laden’s script: ghost-written in the West.” Plus there’s this:

Is it that the dumbing down of public life is now so complete that even a loon like bin Laden can get five stars from literary pundits for saying things like ‘kill the Americans and seize their money wherever and whenever [you] find them’ (December 1998) and ‘My kidneys are all right’ (November 2001)?

I think he stole that last from The Who, with a slight translation error creeping in . . . . Read the whole thing, which is a pretty damning indictment of a lot of literary — and political — punditry.