NEWS POTPOURRI

James S. Robbins over at NRO has a piece on why bagging Bin Laden matters. I happen to agree with him. As long as Bin Laden is free he is a mass murderer who has escaped justice. While I still believe in the mission in Iraq, I am saddened that it appears to have diverted attention and, perhaps, resources from the hunt for the Al Qaeda leader.

Which is why I am so interested in the debate about whether we need a larger military, which is raging over at The Belmont Club, and the issue of whether or not the insurgents can win in Iraq, which is the subject of a post over at Strategy Page.

Howard Fineman says the MSM (Mainstream Media) is really another American political party, which is collapsing because of, among other things, the CBS Rathergate fiasco.

Tony Blankley also weighs in on Rathergate, saying that the investigating panel did their client, CBS, a great service by failing to dig deeply into the actual validity of the documents and the political bias that generated such interest in them. In short, Blankley concludes, the report generated the softest anti-CBS headline possible, "CBS Fires 4", rather than "CBS Used Fake Documents to Damage President...Political Bias Seen".