Did Osama Win After All?

This Miami Herald editorial says it better than I ever could:

One wonders if Osama bin Laden didn't win after all. He ruined the America that existed on 9/11. But he had help.

and:

I would have expected proud defiance of anyone who would suggest that a mere terrorist threat could send this country into spasms of despair and fright so profound that we'd follow a leader who considers the law a nuisance and perfidy a privilege.

Never would I have expected this nation -- which emerged stronger from a civil war and a civil rights movement, won two world wars, endured the Depression, recovered from a disastrous campaign in Southeast Asia and still managed to lead the world in the principles of liberty -- would cower behind anyone just for promising to ``protect us.''

There's more. A lot more. Read the whole thing.