9-11 + 3

A moment of silence, and then on to this brilliant analysis by Juan Cole of where we stand three years into Bush’s “war on terror”

http://www.juancole.com/2004_09_01_juancole_archive.html#109487993311862124
Al-Qaeda has succeeded in several of its main goals. It had been trying to convince Muslims that the United States wanted to invade Muslim lands, humiliate Muslim men, and rape