The spectral image that has haunted this presidential campaign finally surfaced last weekend on television with an attack ad of his own. All that was missing was the tag line: “I am Osama bin Laden, and I approved this message.”
Bin Laden’s campaign video was quickly dubbed the “October Surprise,” but the real surprise is something different: It is that, despite warnings by U.S. intelligence that al Qaeda was planning a pre-election attack, it hasn’t happened. Indeed, there hasn’t been a terrorist attack on U.S. soil since Sept. 11, 2001, and the intriguing question is: Why not?
The Real ‘October Surprise’ (washingtonpost.com)
The Real ‘October Surprise’
