Has anyone else noticed that we still haven't caught Osama bin Laden? Need I remind anyone that we're coming up on the six month anniversary of September 11th, and our country with its nanosecond-long attention span is already starting to forget what happened and going back to the tabloid-esque stories that gripped our attention prior to 9/11 and complaining about the increased security measures? Did anyone notice what an incredibly long run-on sentence that was? There's some old trite saying about those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. So will someone please tell me why, when we gave arms to the Afghan mudjaheddin in the '80s and expected them to win because the Soviets had little experience fighting in a cold, mountainous terrain where superior firepower had little advantage, we now expect to win a war under the same circumstances where we're probably fighting our own weaponry albeit only 20 years older? Machine guns and RPG shoulder-launched missiles and SAMs haven't changed that much in the last 15 years, so we're basically fighting people who are using our own weapons against us. In addition, we don't have much experience at all fighting in the type of battlefield that our forces are currently waging war in, plus the Afghans know where all the hideouts are and they're experienced in using the terrain to their advantage. Funny how in such a relatively short amount of time (when you look at the big picture), the perception of a people can go from Poor Oppressed Masses Fighting the Evil Communist Empire to Wily and Devious Terrorists Who Will Be Smote by Superior American Forces Because We're Better and We Have Justice On Our Side.

I think President Moron may have found his own personal little Vietnam. We've become embroiled in this and it's going to be very hard to pull out without looking bad, yet I don't think we're ever going to be able to fully declare victory over Al Qaeda. They're too spread out all over the world -- and if we just start romping through the Middle East to take out terrorist cells in various countries, it probably won't sit well with those countries' governments -- and it'd be an incredible loss of face for little Georgie to admit a stalemate at the hands of some third-world radicals. Either that, or one day, we'll just wake up to a press conference where Donald Rumsfeld declares that the War on Terrorism is over because we just weren't paying enough attention to it.

In other news, my willpower has gone completely down the tubes and I'm eating everything in sight. I just hope I can put a reign on it before Krispy Kreme Thursday, or else there will be a scene in the break room much like that of a Looney Tunes cartoon involving the Tasmanian Devil.