Everyone has an answer for the “If you were going to die tomorrow, what would be your last meal be?” question. But let me ask you this: if you were going to be killed by elite U.S. forces, what kind of pornography would you look at? The full details haven’t been released yet, but an extensive porn collection was found in Osama bin Laden’s hideout by American commandos. The collection was said to be “modern, electronically recorded video and… fairly extensive.”
It would seem that the de-mythologizing of Osama bin-Laden is gathering steam as the contents of the hard drives and thumb drives collected at his “mansion” are being analyzed. As it turns out, bin-Laden wasn’t the all-powerful evil demigod that our fearful, thoroughly propagandized selves believed him to be. No, apparently he was just a lonely middle-aged paranoid recluse with three wives and a pornography problem…and a stash of “natural Viagra.” Man, you’d think that with three wives, he wouldn’t need porn…but since one woman is about all I can handle, I couldn’t begin to speak to that.
Allahu akbar, indeed. God may be great…but a man still has needs, even one who was so obsessed with his personal safety that he rarely, if ever, set foot outside the armed camp that was his final redoubt. Since Osama’s “mansion” had no internet connection (and since cell phones were banned), the porn would have had to have been brought in from the outside. Yes, Pakistan is a deeply Conservative Islamic Paradise…but if a man wants porn, then damnit he’s gonna get porn.
Hmm…this kinda puts the lie to the whole “decadent West” argument, eh? Turns out the East can more than hold its own when it comes to decadence. ;-)
