OK, all you knitting people, listen up.

Forget the socks and mufflers for the troops. What we need are some intelligence warmers.

BLITZER: Do you have any idea where he is?

EIKENBERRY: The intelligence has gone cold on Osama bin Laden.
(HuffPo)

Of course, the Eikenberry guy hastens to explain, the "war on international terror" isn't about "one individual," referring to the O-man. No, we just keep him around to give the people a good scare now and then...you know, sort of like how folks go to horror movies...and anyway, all the intelligence warmers have been thrown into the war on one of those I-countries, I keep forgetting which.

The really interesting thing here is how they always talk about "international terror...because, hey, domestic terror is just nothin' but good ol' boys.