Gore Vidal, de meest controversiële schrijver van Amerika, lanceert vanuit zijn woonplaats in Italië weer eens een aanval op de Bush-regering, ?de olie en gas Bush-Cheney Junta?.

Vidal calls bin Laden an 'Islamic zealot' and 'evil doer' but argues that 'war' cannot be waged on the abstraction of 'terrorism'. He says that 'Every nation knows how - if it has the means and will - to protect itself from thugs of the sort that brought us 9/11 ... You put a price on their heads and hunt them down. In recent years, Italy has been doing that with the Sicilian Mafia; and no-one has suggested bombing Palermo.'