Not-So-Great Minds

This doesn't qualify as plagiarism, and it lacks the required intellect to involve theft of intellectual property, but I do notice certain similarities -- including the punch line -- in these two offerings from Gregg Easterbrook and Kitty Parker.

At the risk of being called a Saddam-loving French Islamofacist, might I point out that more measured, and rational, responses to the information Bush possessed -- like heightened precautions at airports and more careful review of existing information -- might have solved the immediate problem, whereas the responses imagined by our fantasizing friends -- "the bombing of Afghanistan" and "an all-out attack on alleged terrorist camps in Afghanistan" -- likely would not have.