From the editor.

Could Osama bin Laden (if he is still alive) ever hope to conquer the United States? How about Saddam Hussein? How about all of the world's terrorists and terrorist sponsors combined? Of course not! America is too powerful, and the American people love their country too much, to allow a foreign invader to defile our soil.

Is there a foreign enemy that could bring our beloved country to its knees? China perhaps? Or Russia? Never! At least, that was the assessment of Abraham Lincoln, who lived during a time when America's military prowess, as compared to the rest of the world, was not nearly so great as it is today. "Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow?" Lincoln asked rhetorically in an 1838 speech. "Never! -- All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years."

Method in the Madness

According to President Bush, the terrorist enemy that struck us on September 11th did not understand America. "They didn't understand that when you attack America and you murder innocent people, we're coming after you with full force and fury...," he said on January 24th of this year. "They didn't understand our fiber, our character, our values." The following day he opined that "when the enemy hit us, they must have not known what they were doing."

In reality, the enemy knows exactly what it is doing and has (thus far) gotten the reaction it expected. One of our enemies, terrorist leader bin ...