Let's be honest - the 'terrorists' of George Bush's fantasies are not terrorists because the object of the terrorist excercise is the inculcate a sense of terror in the host population without actually doing anything and achieve political change that way - go read the handbooks about terrorism, they are there to be read. Al Quaida and the Iraqi insurgents aren't terrorists - how much more terrorised can those poor people be? - whatever else they may be, but what sort of casualty is the language when the American government appears prepared to ride rough shod over every law - national and international - including their own Constitution and for what? The election of brother Jeb next time around?

Read Sun Tsu. Know your enemy, and don't give him what he wants or expects. It is clear that the American government does not know their enemy and seems intent on giving him exactly what he wants. Bush is a Bourbon, plain and simple.

The really worrying thing is that some of the jihadists really do want to destroy our way of life, and it is a sad little truism that the only real, sure defence of freedom is freedom. I had the distasteful experience last night of watching an apologist for the American administration defending the prospect of bombing Al Jazeera for the crime of daring to oppose the administration line. Watch out all you guys at the Guardian and Liberal Party HQ. Al Jazeera today, the Quai D'Orsay tomorrow. Voltaire may have been French, but he was still right.