http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2002-2006 by the authors Wed, 30 Apr 2003 11:37:18 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/04/30/100918.php#comment-8820 Don't forget that it also takes a rhetorical weapon away from Osama and his boys. The presence of infidel troops in the sacred land of Saudi Arabia was one of OBL's stated reasons for hating America, and while I have no doubt that that was just an excuse for terror-making, there must be quite a few people in the Middle East who took him at his word. With our military out of there, he now has one less grievance with which to appeal to the locals for jihad. ]]> 8820@blogcritics.org Wed, 30 Apr 2003 11:37:18 EDT