Brilliant

Every experienced strategist understands warfare is, at its most basic level, a clash of human wills. The motive will of a man who spends years preparing to smash a jet into a skyscraper is large in big letters. His cohorts are betting that America is a sitcom nation with a short attention span. We'll change channels, cut and run.

Cheese and rice, Austin Bay nails it. Read the whole thing. I mean it. Go NOW.

Hat tip: Da Blogfatha.