The difference — OK, one of many — between Osama and Commander Codpiece is that Osama knows what he wants and how to get it. Far from being dead or captured or even reduced in power, he now has a refuge in Pakistan and is on his way to getting another in Iraq. His short-term goal is survival but his longer-term aims — to get any non-Arab military presence out of the region — is proceeding nicely as well.
When Shrub is finished wallowing in his 9/11 nostalgia trip, maybe he’ll have to time to contemplate the strategic disaster he’s created in Iraq. For Al Qaeda, trading Afghanistan (and they may get it back yet) for a sanctuary on the borders of Saudia Arabia, Jordan and Syria is definitely trading up.
Is this president really going to have started two wars and lost both, all while dividing and bankrupting his own country?
Heckuva job, dubya.