re: Playing politics with terror (update)
Of course, if this is playing politics on the part of the Bush administration, the premise is that Bush has a hot line to tell the Washington Times what to do. Is this true of the Kerry campaign and Newsweek? Or is it just bias on both sides?
I agree with your point on the "unnamed officials." I've seen way too much of that lately. On both sides.
I'm not going near the argument on which candidate the Islamists think they'll be more likely to roll over.