The Washington Monthly

This is something I have been wondering about for a few months... You gotta think that Osama and the other Islamic fundamentalists are just thrilled with the way things are going in wake of 9-11. For a relatively small amount of money and the sacrifice of a couple of fanatical followers AlQuada has cost the USA Billions in goofy security messieurs, creation of entire new bureaucracies, restrictions on all kinds of freedoms... Not to mention the lives and treasure lost by this administrations misguided attack on a country that Al Qaida kind of considered an enemy....

You gotta wonder if these folks dont want to keep bush in office... He has done so much that makes em happy...

A new book asks the same questions.

An anonymous intelligence officer is about to release a book saying that Bush is losing the war on terror:

Imperial Hubris is the latest in a relentless stream of books attacking the administration in election year. Most of the earlier ones, however, were written by embittered former officials. This one is unprecedented in being the work of a serving official with nearly 20 years experience in counter-terrorism who is still part of the intelligence establishment.


The fact that he has been allowed to publish, albeit anonymously and without naming which agency he works for, may reflect the increasing frustration of senior intelligence officials at the course the administration has taken.

This is the second book written by this guy, but apparently he takes his criticism of Bush far beyond anything he's published before. Among other things, Anonymous say that (a) we probably aren't close to capturing bin Laden, (b) Bush and Tommy Franks screwed up big time by not going after him with massive firepower at Tora Bora in 2002, and (c) al-Qaeda is probably stronger than ever right now. And then there's this:

Anonymous, who published an analysis of al-Qaida last year called Through Our Enemies' Eyes, thinks it quite possible that another devastating strike against the US could come during the election campaign, not with the intention of changing the administration, as was the case in the Madrid bombing, but of keeping the same one in place.


'I'm very sure they can't have a better administration for them than the one they have now,' he said."