There is a sense of disillusionment throughout Afghanistan!  Our U.S. President George W. Bush has not delivered what he had promised!  The Afghani people are anxious and tired of waiting!  They have a strong feeling that the U.S. government is again letting them down!

Three weeks have already passed.  Our ground troops on Afghani soil are nowhere in sight. The recent quick in-and-out landing operation was intended to be only for show and tell. By the time Afghanis emerged from their caves and bunkers to shake hands with their long waited for "guests," our commandoes, who succeeded in blowing up an Afghani shed, had left. 

Our forces didn�t even wait to take a couple of real action pictures that may be used to convince us, Americans, of winning the war against "savage evil-doers" who dared to challenge the only superpower in the world.  The pictures that our government distributed worldwide were embarrassingly faked.  They made our Afghani "hosts" laugh.  Our film producer did not realize that Kandahar has no pine trees that appeared in the background.

Alas!  We waged this war, we are told, to capture Osama bin Laden, who, with his assault rifle, may blow up the entire world.  We have successfully formed an international "anti-terror" coalition to aid us in our efforts. We mobilized our land, sea and air forces.  But bin Laden can nowhere be found.  He has survived our carpet-bombing, our cluster bombs, our tomahawk and ballistic missiles, our B-51and B-52 bombers, and other new secret weapons that we needed to test.

Concerned for our mental health and well being, our government has decided to not show us what is actually happening!  With our tax money, it purchased all rights of satellite photos that can show us entire Afghani families blown apart and tiny infants with bomb shrapnel and burns dying.  We are told, however, that all airports were repeatedly bombed, though Afghanistan has no air force.  All radar control and command centers were over and over again destroyed, though Afghanistan has no communication systems.  All navy ships were sunk, though Afghanistan has no sea. 

After our military did its best to "smoke" bin Laden out but to no avail, Britain�s foreign secretary, Jack Straw, started to play a different note.  He is now speaking of a war that can drag on "indefinitely" and that the coalition is considering a pause during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. 

U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is finally revealing to us that the effort to get bin Laden and crush terrorism is compared to the Cold War, which lasted 50 years, and that the Muslim guerilla fighter is not our objective after all.  "What is really important ... is the outcome," he emphasized.

Our secretary of defense is, surprisingly, not lying!  It is stupid to assume that a superpower goes to war and wastes billions and billions of dollars to capture, "dead or alive," a single man in a faraway land.