Political Truce: The Seventh Anniversary of 9-11

The two mainstream party presidential candidates -- Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) -- will appear jointly at a New York ceremony commemorating the seventh anniversary of 9-11. In the process, they have agreed to "put aside politics and come together to renew that unity, to honor the memory of each and every American who died, and to grieve with the families and friends who lost loved ones."

I welcome the truce, but I wish they had decided, instead, to stay home and watch Charlie Wilson's War, with its foreshadowing of Afghani militants and its message of the perils of drive-by foreign aid, aid delivered solely by the Pentagon.

And what, if anything, will either candidate do to dissuade those Americans (41%) who told Princeton Survey Research last June (2007) that they believed "Saddam Hussein’s regime was directly involved in planning, financing or carrying out the terrorist attacks."

Who wants to place a bet on how soon an image from Ground Zero makes it into an advertisement (web or TV)?

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