More HST wisdom

Hunter S. Thompson, on the aftermath of 9.11:
"It will be a Religious War, a sort of Christian jihad, fueled by religious hatred and led by merciless fanatics on both sides. It will be guerrilla warfare on a global scale, with no front lines and no identifiable enemy. Osama bin Laden will be a primitive 'figurehead', or even dead, for all we know, but whoever put those all-American jet planes loaded with all-American fuel into the 110-story-high Twin Towers and the Pentagon did it with chilling precision and accuracy. The second one was a dead-on bull's-eye. Straight into the middle of the skyscraper.
"Nothing ever claimed by George W. Bush's $350 billion 'Star Wars' missile defense system could have prevented Tuesday's attack, and it cost next to nothing to pull off. The efficiency of it was terrifying. Fewer than twenty unarmed suicide soldiers from some apparently primitive country somewhere on the other side of the world took out the World Trade Center and the Pentagon with three quick and costless strikes on one day. That is terrifying.
"We are going to punish somebody for this attack, but just who or where will be blown to smithereens for it is hard to say. Maybe Afghanistan, maybe Pakistan or Iraq, or possibly all three at once. Who knows? Not even the generals in what remains of the Pentagon or the New York papers calling for war seem to know who did it or where to look for them.
"This is going to be a very expensive war, and victory is not guaranteed, for anyone, and certainly not for a baffled little creep like George W. Bush. All he knows is that his father started the war a long time ago, and that he, the goofy child-President, has been chosen by Fate and the global oil industry to finish it off. He can declare a National Security Emergency and clamp down hard on everybody, mo matter where they live or why. If the guilty won't hold up their hands and confess, he and the generals will ferret them out by force.
"Good luck. He is in for a profoundly difficult job, armed as he is with no credible military intelligence, no witnesses, and only the ghost of bin Laden to blame for the tragedy."