Rowhouse Logic - Breathtaking Inanity

He still seems to be the latter part of “Dead or Alive”. I’m going to cheat a little here and repost part of something I wrote a few weeks ago (link). It’s not very good, but some of the questions are worth repeating.

• On February 23, 1998 Osama bin Laden declared war on the United States of America. Was our love of freedom one of his reasons? It’s pretty easy to google this one, so I won’t give away the answer.
• Does the Bush administration know the answer to the previous question? Only they can answer that of course. Personally, I’m not convinced. If they do, should they discuss it with the American people in the clearest possible terms and leave the catchy rhetoric to the campaign trail?
• Does knowledge of the motivations of your enemy and use of that knowledge help you fight them? Honestly, I don’t know. History suggests that it surely does.

Now that Osama bin Laden has reappeared and made a statement, what sort of analysis is going to take place? Will it be calm, clear, rational and results oriented, or will it be overblown hype? A political football? You know the answer.

I’m not watching TV. Have the pundits started calling this bad news for Kerry yet? Have the right wing blather-bots started calling it OBL’s Endorsement of Kerry? Wait. I bet I know the answer.

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