Mr. Brooks has the enviable talent to turn anything he writes into Cheese Whiz. It is completely ersatz, it comes sealed in a jar, with a shelf life of near eternity, and it almost resembles food. We, his readers, have the good fortune of having the opportunity to read Mr. Brooks' thoughts on the life and career of Osama bin Laden, the recent martyr to Jihad. Well, Mr. bin Laden is the shy, retiring, milk toast of a monster, who was too attached to his mother, but capable of monstrous acts against The American Empire. Here is an illustrative quotation from Mr. Brooks essay:

'We think of terrorism leaders as hard and intimidating. Bin Laden was gentle and soft, with a flaccid handshake. Yet his soldiers have told researchers such as Peter Bergen, the author of “The Longest War,” that meeting him was a deeply spiritual experience. They would tell stories of his ability to avoid giving offense and forgive transgressors.'

You know where this is going. All garnished with apt quotations from several books, all very impressive to whom? The Good Gray Times and their good gray  readers, who like to be spoon fed respectable middle of the road intellectual kitsch, framed in the high toned rhetoric that Mr. Brooks has completely mastered. It is of untold value that America can count on the steady guiding hand of  Mr. Brooks, the most prominent of America's Political Theologians.

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