Other Comments: World War of Ideas

It is one thing to tell the truth even when it damages your friends.  It's another to tell untruths in order not to offend your enemies.  It's one thing to give the devil his due.  It's another to do the devil's public relations.  How else to explain a dispatch from the Associated Press referring to Osama bin Laden as “an exiled Saudi dissident”?  Such spin may not be inaccurate but it's like calling Jeffery Dahmed an “eccentric gourmet.”  It rather misses the point, don't you think?