Kerry missed the big picture in the debate tonight. He looked good and spoke well, etc., but he lost the debate of ideas. To kerry, the war on terror is about bin laden and only bin laden. This article hits it on the head: He sees the events of 9-11 as an isolated attack by a madman, rather than the culmination of attacks on the west that begin at least with the 1972 attack by Palestinian militants on Israeli athletes and proceeds with the overthrow of the Shah in Iran and the taking of US hostages, the assassination of Anwar...
