Unlockstep
Well, it looks like the million-dollar bullhorns will be making their 8-, 12-, 13-year-old arguments* starting on Sunday night. (*I mean arguments about things that happened 13 years ago; I think, given the facts, a 13-year-old could make a fine argument about 9/11 culpability.)
But a couple of other items are rattling around, like a nut loose in the machinery (and you can read that any way you want):
Bin Laden is still roaming free;
The trail is “stone cold“;
We had a chance to get him, but the Iraq war prevented it;
The bureaucracy is no better now than it ever was;
Pakistan is spinning on whether they’re offering Bin Laden some kind of sanctuary;
George Bush doesn’t think about him very much, unless it’s as a campaign plank;
And Dick Cheney won’t let go of the dream.
But, yeah, thank heavens we have the story of “exactly what happened” on 9/11.
What I’d like to see, but still haven’t, is a rigorous rundown on just what’s been accomplished in the War on Terror that isn’t the Iraq War. If we’re going to have an election in eight weeks, we might as well be talking about what the Congress, in its wisdom, has been doing for the last five years.
