Why is it unreasonable to state that it often takes a long time to find fugitives? Just because it deflects criticism from the Bush administration — for the lack of trophies in the War on Terrorism, and you hate Bush, doesn't make it inherently wrong.

I mean bin Laden and Hussein (assuming they're alive, which is possible and improbable, respectively) have a freaking fortune in money, literal armies of sympathetic followers and, unlike Rudolph, aren't in our own backyard.

And please, people, don't front like they were somehow not trying their hardest to catch the guy. He killed a cop, for chrissakes, and Bill Clinton had four years to catch the guy who shot up an abortion clinic and bombed the Olympics.

As far as his supporters go, that shit is just foul. What can I say; there is a lunatic fringe. The same people who supported Tim McVeigh. But don't paint all conservatives (nor North Carolinians) with that brush. Not all liberals supported "The LA Four" or Mumia Abu-Jamal, even if some overlooked their fucked-up acts in the convenience of political symbolism.

That said, I don't agree with Andrew Sullivan's hyperbole: "He is our Osama."

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