Most of the time I find myself in agreement with Andrew Sullivan. But in his latest dish he includes this sentiment, delivered as a cautionary imperative:

Killing bin Laden out of rage is not the correct response. We must not kill him because we are angry. We must kill him because it is just.

Okay. But if some angry and motivated ‘Merkin soldier (or hell, howsabout Christiane Amanpour ?) were to kill Ewe-sama jus’ for sport — and then solder his severed head to the grill of a Humvee — I wouldn’t lose a moment’s sleep over it. Nor would Rummy. Nor would Geraldo. The only “correct response” I’m interested in is the one that gets the job done…

And speaking of Geraldo…say what you will about his chest-thumping and musk-drenched Fox News reportage, there’s absolutely no denying the grandeur of that ‘stache of his — which seems made for adventurously upper-lippin’ it near bombed-out Jalalabad cave complexes. I mean, if ever there was facial hair destined to find its war time celebrity niche, his is it the stuff, ain’t it? — peppered and wearied with pulverized rock and ash, solid, determined, constant…

Anyway, Geraldo’s sources in Tora Bora are telling him Binny used the 36 hour cease fire of several days back to donkey himself into Pakistan, where he’s holed up with a “well-known” Pashtun tribal leader in Pershawar. Reportedly, UBL’s shaved his beard and has taken to wearing “western-style garb” (you mean, like chaps and spurs? Please tell me it’s chaps and spurs!).

Possible, I suppose–though for what it’s worth, the chances are just as good that Usama’s pinched a year’s supply of canned meat and is holed up in Geraldo’s crumb catcher ’til spring.

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