"By Washington's logic, firecrackers should now be going off everywhere as the counter-terror crusaders zero in on Osama bin Laden's hideout in Tora Bora. However, Europe is cool, there is apprehension throughout the South and outright despondency blankets much of the Arab and Muslim world." This article also discusses air power as the solution to the Vietnam syndrome, deus ex machina and the change from Locke to Hobbes.