Spiritual Missile Shield
I thought it was ironic that President Bush announced that he was scrapping the ABM treaty — in order to build a missile shield — just a few minutes before he released the bin Laden tape. The president's emphasis on a missile shield reminded me of a man whose house had just been burned down by his neighbor's son and his response was to call a plumber, because that was the only phone number he could remember.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/16/opinion/16FRIE.html