Lest We Forget The Nature of What We're Facing

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On the road working today, so my only post may be this sobering comment about Osama bin Laden:

His inspiration, repeatedly cited in his writings and interviews, is the American atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which he says shocked Japan's fading imperial government into a surrender it might not otherwise have contemplated... Listening to him on tape after tape, it is difficult to doubt bin Laden's intent. There is evidence that he and his allies have experimented with chemical and biological weapons, typically low-level toxins. But in public, bin Laden talks mainly about nuclear bombs.

--Reporter and author Steve Coll, writing in the Washington Post.

Read the whole article. It won't make your day but it will help keep you focused.