Cronkite says Rove set up the OBL thing

Walter Cronkite (sounds like German Krankheit = sickness or disease, though I am not particularly fond of playing with people’s names) says, perhaps half jokingly and half ironically, that Karl Rove was behind the reappearance of Osama bin Laden. I think in saying this, Cronkite unwittingly admits that OBL’s tape will help W.’s election because it brings to the forefront the issue of terrorism to the consciousness of the amnesic Americans. This is also an admission that Kerry is simply not up to the challenge of dealing with terrorists. (Of course, “dealing” means crushing them not negotiating with them.)

In a way, the Americans are in a situation similar to the Taiwanese a few years ago, when, during the election, Taiwan was threatened by the Chinese Communists but went ahead and gave Lee Teng-hui a landslide victory, thumbing their collective nose at the Commies. Unlike the Spaniards who caved in to the terrorists’ demands, I suspect the Americans will have the spine to stand up to them, and at the end defeat them.