There's always hope

Reuters today reports that Ayman al-Zawahri, Al Qaeda's appropriately numbered number-two man, called President Bush a "lying failure and charlatan" in regard to the war on terrorism.

(Does he really know what a charlatan is? Is there an Al-Qaeda-language equivalent so specific to "charlatan?" Or was this a bored translator abusing his poetic license?)

This is a breakthrough: The discovery that a high-level Al Qaeda leader and many Americans both agree on something. I suspect similar agreement could be reached on the social and moral worth of Jackass: Number Two, now in theatres too near you.

One hopes that we'd find other common ground and somehow be able to end this thing in time for the playoffs.