That War On Terra just keeps gettin' bigger an' bigger...

Maybe this is why Condi Rice wanted to bury that State Department report on global terrorism:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. count of major world terrorist attacks more than tripled in 2004, a rise that may revive debate on whether the Bush administration is winning the war on terrorism, congressional aides said on Tuesday.

The number of "significant" international terrorist attacks rose to about 650 last year from about 175 in 2003, according to congressional aides briefed on the numbers by State Department and intelligence officials on Monday.

I read somewhere on the Internets that on May 21 of this year, the spread of time between September 11, 2001 and that date will be exactly the same as the spread between Pearl Harbor and the end of World War II. So in practically the same amount of time it took "the greatest generation" to destroy Germany, Italy and Japan, we've turned Afghanistan into an opium farm, made Iraq a terrorist haven which is growing more violent by the day, and allowed terrorist attacks globally to increase three fold.

We are so not good at this running the world thing. Can we pass the baton to someone else for a few years?