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...Question: How close do you think we are to finding bin Laden...
...Kelly: We very much hope the next big story has nothing to do with Osama bin Laden! And I think I will take a few days off after Christmas. And happy holidays to everyone...
...Kelly: Well, I think it is going to be days before we know exactly what is up with bin Laden. For all we know, he is, in fact, dead. But I think the news in the next few days will be trying to figure out if he is dead or alive or in Pakistan...
...None of those gentlemen could foresee the rise of an historical figure like Osama bin Laden, who seems in himself to personify the continued existence - and perversion - of all those ideas. Ethnic nationalism is as passionate a cause today as any time since World War I. Religious fundamentalism is not only on the rise in the Islamic world, but among Christians and Jews as well. And there is no dearth of extremists like bin Laden who believe they are the last word in absolute truth...
...somehow the rise of Osama bin Laden and terrorist extremism seems to call progress into question. Bin Laden and his followers embrace a medieval notion of religion and society (except of course when it comes to weapons, when they'd like to be scientifically up-to the minute). They missed out completely on the Enlightenment notion that the sacred and the secular should be kept separate as well as the 18th century notion that mankind had finally entered the age of reason...