Bidding War on Terrorism

We now seem to be on our way to offering a $50 million bounty for Osama bin Laden -- a man George Bush said he was no longer concerned about in March 2002 -- and who was apparently successful in escaping the US dragnet in Tora Bora by bribery (involving a large but undisclosed sum) some while back.

All of which has the air of a bidding war, as predicted by Anthoy Cordesman of CSIS...

...an idea whose irony is brought out nicely by James Dunnigan in his comment about debt-restructuring.