Children spoiled rotten. Steve Coll's new book "The Bin Ladens" takes a gander at some of the paper-thin adolescent psychology that rules our world (
NYT):
Just as recent books like Jacob Weisberg’s “Bush Tragedy” have underscored the role Oedipal rivalries may have played in George W. Bush’s presidency and his decision to go to war against Iraq, so this volume underscores the role that Freudian family dynamics may have played in Mr. bin Laden’s radicalization and his declaration of war against America.
However, you could have received this exact same insight from
The Onion in October 2001 in its pithy article,
Privileged Children Of Millionaires Square Off On World Stage.