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Osama bin Laden is finally dead more than nine years after 9/11. Fantastically, it turns out that he was holed up for the past six years or so in a three-story reinforced house in an elite suburb a few hours outside the Pakistani capital, with an entourage of almost 30, including his many wives and kids.
Obviously, for this to have been so, there must have been scandalous, probably criminal complicity of many interested parties, including his influential Saudi family, elements of the U.S., Pakistani, and Afghanistan governments and military, and players in the corporate and international monetary system, to say nothing of large segments of the local population who consider us to be invaders and the main cause of their woes.
Here are some questions that need to be answered, but probably won't be.
Where did the money come from to finance his relatively luxurious way of life? Who was the builder of his stronghold? Who was the architect? How was the money transferred to pay for the ongoing, substantial upkeep?...
I feel that Jeremy Gorman's essay (“A Pipe Dream,” The Commons, January), correctly identifies drug and insurance companies, malpractice lawyers, and government subsidies as major contributors to the outrageous costs of our health-care system. But he gives short shrift to the elephant in the living room. I recently read...
