Great Minds Think Alike (Self Indulgence Edition)

Barack Obama has concluded that it is not important to kill Osama bin laden if we can contain him. I know of somebody who embraced the idea of containment with regard to bin Laden some time ago. You're welcome, Mr. President-Elect!

The Cold War and the Terrorist Threat: Self-Indulgence Alert

So it appears that the government is beginning to look to the Cold War to provide a model for how to combat terrorism. That seems like a sound idea. You know when it also seemed like a sound idea? In January 2006 when I proposed just such an idea in an op-ed distributed by History News Service.