In a newsbit I only heard today on the Diane Rehm Show, Task 11, a task force specifically created to capture Osama Bin Laden was disbanded a little over five weeks ago. Obviously Osama Bin Laden is still alive and dangerous. The word is that the US simply does not have the resources to both hunt for Bin Laden and rebuild Iraq.
Though I'm not surprised (nor am I surprised by the lack of news coverage of this item), it is still troubling to me. Wasn't it just yesterday that we were told that Bin Laden would be captured by any means necessary? That his infrastructure of terror would be dismantled?
Whatever the case, this appears to be part and parcel of an administration wide problem of attention to detail. Whether because of a presidential inability to focus, or because of our OWN attention deficit disorder (or even a combination of both) I'm not sure.
All I know is that I've been doing research on political attitudes in public schools and of the fifty classrooms I've been able to talk to only a couple correctly noted that NONE of the 9/11 terrorists were Iraqi. Go figure.