Yogi Berra said that "baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical." Similarly, in many ways war is ninety percent mental, or psychological. So Bush can't say that things are going poorly or moderately poorly in Iraq, if in fact they are. Nor can he, or should he, say anything negative about the sorry state of Islam & Muslim culture because that worsen the situation; it's often best for leaders to not state publicly the root of a problem.
Ultimately terrorists won't be defeated from without, but from within. That is, it won't end until Muslims finally begin to shame their bloodthirsty co-religionists. The biggest Muslim scandal today isn't Osama Bin Laden, but his enablers - the Muslim community. Where are the Muslim protest marches against Osama? Why haven't contributions to mosques fallen precipitously? And, as Tom Friedman of the Times mentioned, there was a fatwa calling for the death of a novelist, Salman Rushdie, but no fatwa issued by any prominent cleric against a mass murderer like Osama bin Laden or Al-Zawahiri. Sigh.
 'Makes up stories! Great, horrible enemy! Must be killed!' |  'Bombs embassies, kills civilians, a bit overzealous at times but all-around good guy. Tips his barber well.' |
UPDATE: a more definitive piece here, via Julie.
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