Everybody is getting into the act

Even bin Laden, the guy we are supposed to hate most n the world, (if you except the others, like John Kerry or W, or the domestic Villian of the Week....). Al Jazeera claims to have a 90 minute tape of the dude showing him actually plotting the 9/11 attacks, and meeting with some or all of the hijackers at some indeterminate location.

He's baiting us, trying to goad us into deeper (or wider) military action. Osama himself has become expendable, his greatest value would be as a martyr whose life was lost in a fight with the American crusaders. At all costs, he must be denied that role.

The president made a speech yesterday regarding (of all things) the war on terror, but he said nothing new, (his tone however was more somber, persuasive if you will). He still does not have it right though. Guns, bombs, helicopters and soldiers will not win this war. He need to take the lead in winning the hearst and minds of those people whose lives and communities breed the hatred that drives terrorism. Until that point sinks in, the war is just so much headline fodder.