What is stinging is that these words, penned before the onslaught of terror, are correct. Cowardice will punch back harder. Real men will not yield pleasure to the bully, by giving him a fight.
Now here is the genius of Dubyah. We will retailate "honorably" to avenge our anger. We will not strike civilians this time because our "war" is not with them. We will continue the CIA process of "nation building" that serves the fascists and oligarchs so well. We will send our sons and daughters to hell and define the last one standing a "patriot" and the ones in the soil "martyrs". Osama once a CIA blue chip, will be disgarded since he was foolish enough to think he had a contract that would be honored.
The leadership of Dubyah will permit us to create more markets for General Electric, British Petroleum, Archer Daniels Midland, Phillip Morris, Busch, Pepsi, McDonalds, and Microsoft. All we have to do is send our pound of flesh to the government that provides for them, and the blood of our children in the name of honor, patriotism, and duty. Our politicians will call it "peace". Our enemies will call it "piece". Both will be correct and the fascists would have it no other way.