Two points, unrelated and perhaps not germane. First, I hear--posted on FR, I think--that we have several or many heroes in the military and CIA whom we will never hear of. They have died in this country and off our Eastern Coast, barely making it in time to stop detonations.
Second, right now, I am so depressed with the N.O. thing--right, it was local and state debacles, but it was also federal debacle, except for the Coast Guard--that I have no confidence in any government agency except the military. Fair warning: I have not had confidence in any government agency except the military in a long, long time.
Which is, from Osama's POV, quod erat demonstrandum. His way = right, and our principles = wrong.
Cheer up, we'll kill the SOB eventually. Nothing stinks worse in the nostrils of Islam than a dead false prophet.