Newsweek/MSNBC does have an excellent article this week about Osama bin Laden, who you may remember as the Evil One we have wanted Dead or Alive for two years. “That guy in the beret with the moustache?” you ask. “No,” I reply, “but I understand your confusion.”

…bin Laden’s elusiveness and the Taliban’s resurgence—combined with the postwar morass in Iraq—have raised tough new questions about the administration’s overall strategy in the war on terror. It’s not just whether the Bush administration is getting Iraq right, say a rising chorus of skeptics among the military brass… It’s whether Iraq should have been invaded at all when the task of destroying Al Qaeda in its Central Asian base was left so unfinished. “We’ve essentially declared war on Mussolini and allowed Hitler to run free,” said Graham, one of the few presidential candidates who voted no on the Iraq war resolution in fall 2002. With each passing day that ready-to-fire weapons of mass destruction are not found, it becomes harder to explain why Iraq was such an imminent threat that America had to wheel 180 degrees to suddenly take on Saddam Hussein—and sacrifice so much international support to do so.
-“Why Can’t We Get Him?”, 9/22/03.