By the end of October, absolutely nothing about the war on terrorism suited the importunate snobs of the "elite" press. How could Tommy Thompson not know everything they thought of to ask about anthrax? The man is really QUITE impossible. And why didn't Tom Ridge DO something about something -- anything would do, really. As for the war in Afghanistan, after a week of disappointments, it was obviously all but LOST. The leftist German weekly news magazine Der Spiegel ran through the threnody of American "failure" that has become the obligatory theme for liberal presstitutes everywhere: after four interminable, harrowing ...