“Given that this is the administration that was touted as being run with

C.E.O. clockwork, perhaps it should be added to the growing list of Things

That Have Changed Forever since Sept. 11.” How to Lose a War: ‘The “America Strikes Back” optimism that

surged after Sept. 11 has now been

stricken by the multitude of ways we’re

losing the war at home. The F.B.I. has

proved more effective in waging turf

battles against Rudy Giuliani than waging war on terrorism. Of the more

than 900 suspects arrested, exactly zero have been criminally charged in

the World Trade Center attack (though one has died of natural causes,

we’re told, in a New Jersey jail cell). The Bush team didn’t fully recognize

that a second attack on America had begun until more than a week after

the first casualty. The most highly trumpeted breakthrough in the hunt for

anthrax terrorists — Tom Ridge’s announcement that “the site where the

letters were mailed” had been found in New Jersey — proved a dead

end. And now the president is posing with elementary-school children

again.’ NY Times [“FMHreader”, “FMHreader”]