It's hard to beleive that anyone would pray for "some massive military screwup" that could cost who-knows-how-many American lives, but I suppose there are those out there who are so politically supercharged that they can't see straight. I'm beginning to regard partisanship as not only a facet of democracy, but also as one of the prices we pay for freedom as well.

There's an outstanding article in this month's Time magazine; several prominent historians give President Bush top marks for his handling of the terrorist threat. It'd be difficult to label this group of academics as blinkered right-wingers. (Maybe the article is a White House forgery!) I think it's a pretty impressive nod to the high-quality of Bush's leadership.