>You have to find these guys through intelligence and co-operation. I am guessing that there are government officials in the Middle East who know where Osama is. If they could see your values, they would probably help you apprehend him.
This is a sadly naive understanding of the essence of the conflict. It is precisely because some people understand our values that they oppose our presence in the region and any influence our culture has on theirs. This is not a 'misunderstanding' and people are not the same everywhere. A North Korean believes things which can only avoid conflict when kept in complete isolation. The things islamo-fascists believe cannot be isolated, though they in fact would prefer that. This is a genuine clash of incompatible views of the world and man's place in it, however much we might like to believe otherwise. If there is any misunderstanding, it is on the part of well meaning folks who literally cannot imagine the world as UBL sees it.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
