Sometimes in the News ...

Sometimes, the news just seems to display a remarkable confluence of related items. Here's what appears at the moment on Yahoo's Top Stories page (September 1, 0315 GMT)

First Lady Hails Bush Anti-Terror Record
AP - 15 minutes ago
Republican National Convention co-stars Laura Bush and Arnold Schwarzenegger commended President Bush to the country Tuesday night for four more years, hailing him as a man of strength and compassion. "You can count on him, especially in a crisis," ...

Bush Recants, Says Terror War Will Be Won
AP - 6 minutes ago
President Bush said repeatedly on Tuesday that the United States will win its war against terrorism, trying to contain political damage from the doubt he expressed a day earlier.

Two Bus Blasts in Southern Israel Kill 16
AP - 4 minutes ago
Palestinian suicide bombers blew up two buses in this Israeli desert city Tuesday, killing 16 passengers and wounding more than 80 in an attack that ended a six-month lull in violence.

Suicide Bomber Kills 10 at Moscow Subway
AP - 31 minutes ago
A woman strapped with explosives blew herself up outside a busy Moscow subway station Tuesday night, killing at least 10 people and wounding more than 50 in the second terrorist attack to hit Russia in a week, officials said.

12 Nepalese Hostages Said Slain in Iraq
AP - 37 minutes ago
A gruesome video posted on a Web site purported to show militants beheading a Nepalese worker and shooting 11 others in the first mass slaying of foreign hostages during the Iraqi insurgency.

U.S. Seeks to Throw Out Terror Convictions
AP - 39 minutes ago
The Justice Department has asked a judge to throw out the convictions of a suspected terror cell in Detroit because of prosecutorial misconduct, reversing course in a case the Bush administration once hailed as a major victory in the war on terrorism, legal sources said Tuesday.

Add earlier reports about conditions in Afghanistan, where Americans have been advised to stay off the streets, and Doctors Without Borders and the United Nations have abandoned efforts to accomplish anything positive. Add reports about growing anti-'coalition' and anti-'interim government' actions in Iraq. You might arrive at the conclusion that the President was correct when he said the War on Terrorism cannot be won.
I'm pretty certain that it won't be won by the kind of actions he is taking, at any rate.