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May 8, 2011

Hard to imagine Osama's noggin as an attractive centerpiece at next year's White House Community Organizer of the Year banquet...

When it comes to instructive analogies, I prefer Khartoum to cartoons.

If it took America a decade to avenge the dead of 9/11, it took Britain 13 years to avenge their defeat in Sudan in 1884. But, after Kitchener slaughtered the jihadists of the day at the Battle of Omdurman in 1897, he made a point of digging up their leader the Mahdi, chopping off his head and keeping it as a souvenir. The Sudanese got the message. The British had nary a peep out of the joint until they gave it independence six decades later – and, indeed, the locals fought for King and (distant imperial) country as brave British troops during World War Two. Even more amazingly, generations of English schoolchildren were taught about the Mahdi's skull winding up as Lord Kitchener's novelty paperweight as an inspiring tale of national greatness. -- Mark Steyn: Why Pakistan knew it could hide Osama

Posted by Vanderleun at May 8, 2011 8:36 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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Of course, Chomsky is right. What would his point have been, exactly?

Posted by: The COmmander at May 8, 2011 7:01 PM

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