Sarah Palin and Global Terror: I Feel Safer Already

Sarah Palin has been talking a lot about terrorists lately. Seems like she's either trying to reassure us about her foreign policy credentials, or she's trying to warn us that her opponent is a closet terrorist. Hmmmm. So, what's the deal? Is Sarah really an expert on terrorism, or is she following the tried and true Bush political tactic of branding those who disagree with her as unAmerican and terrorists or terrorism supporters?

During the VP debate and on the campaign trail, Sarah Palin has made the point, several times, that Osama Bin Laden agrees that the central front in the War on Terror is in Iraq. Well, if Chief Terror Guy says it, then it must be so. I mean, c'mon, Bin Laden wouldn't say something like that just to get us to devote more resources to Iraq while he goes about the business of rebuilding Al Quaeda and the Taliban in the mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Would he? No way. The fact that he and his top deputies are currently running operations from their mountain hideouts in Iraq confirm that Bin Laden is, in fact, fighting the Central War in Iraq. Right, Sarah?

Wait a minute. What do you mean no top strategists from Al Quaeda are located in Iraq? What do you mean none of them have even traveled to Iraq? What do you mean they've been roaming the mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan this whole time? But.....but.....don't they realize that the central front is in Iraq, not Afghanistan? Didn't they hear President Bush say so? Didn't Osama Bin Laden say so? You don't suppose.....nah.......Bin Laden wouldn't be trying to pull that old misdirection trick, would he? You know. Like the trick the Allied Forces pulled just before D-Day during World War Two when they floated that body with fake papers that made the Germans believe that the invasion would take place far away from the actual landing beaches? Not Bin Laden. He's not clever like us. He couldn't possibly imagine that he'd be able to pull the wool over the eyes of a couple of smart cookies like President Bush and Sarah Palin. Could he?