"God Almighty knows how much I miss meeting with you, how much I long to join you," begins Ayman al-Zawahiri's steamy letter to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. "I think that if I could find a way to you, I would not delay a day, God willing." You can almost hear "It's Raining Men" playing in the background as Zawahiri writes. Had the repressed Mr. Zawahiri worked out his identity issues as a teenager, he would be happier and the world would be a better place.

Dan,

Is this your way of surreptitiously noting that yesterday was "National Coming Out Day"? Yesterday on NPR in Manhattan the morning call-in show was deicated to people calling up and sharing their experiences of when they first announced to the world that they were "gay."

And public radio is better than Jerry Springer how?

Hope there's a happy ending for these two lovebirds.

Like each of them ends up with a missile up each of their butts.

Hey, don't go there! You know what I mean.

The letter sounds fake to me. He's saying everything we would want him to say.

We don't want to repeat the mistake of the Taliban, who restricted participation in governance to the students and the people of Qandahar alone. They did not have any representation for the Afghan people in their ruling regime, so the result was that the Afghan people disengaged themselves from them.

He's touting democracy now? And telling his followers to kill less?