time

[Doug Henwood]

This is from ISI, the punditry shop run by Wall Street's favorite 
economist, Ed "Newboy" Hyman (as my late friend John Liscio nicknamed 
him, for his propensity for putting out research reports that consist 
mainly of newspaper clippings with comments penciled in next to them):


>The time the Bush Administration is taking in launching military 
>action has some major pluses: foreign leaders realize the US is not 
>likely to overreact militarily; the Taliban's rule in Afghanistan is 
>getting more tenuous each day; and bin Laden is being denied 
>innocent victims of a US attack which he could then use to rally 
>Muslims generally.