Operational Tempo

Amide the Madrid and Bagdhad bombings and the coming anniversary of the Iraqi liberation comes a report that a "high value target" is being protected by Al Qaeda militants.

Who knows what this means, plenty of high value targets have been surrounded before. One can hope, but what good is that? War is not a spectator sport, it is survival.

It looks like the operational tempo of the war on terror has increased. The terrorists are by no means taking this lying down, they have lashed out in Iraq, Afghanistan, Turkey, Spain. Is is my opinion that it is a question of "where" and not "if" the next terrorism will occur. Will we end up catching Osama? Maybe, but that will not be the end of it. Osama represents the head of the snake, but this is a snake where the body can live on and grow another head.