[Callahan]

Nope. Osama hates Kerry's guts too. That Kerry and his pals in Spain don't understand that is the problem.

[Cosmo]

The left will never understand that, of course. Truth be told, radical fundamentalists with a firm grasp of the concept of "absolute truth" are more at odds with liberal relativists than with conservative absolutists.

People like Kerry embody the most careless and hedonistic of Western values -- values the Islamic radicals simply can't abide.