The quiet dark of the Dallas suburb was suddenly shattered by George’s terrible screams. Laura leaped out of the Emperor sized bed, pulling the printed silk bathrobe around her as she quickly turned to her pale husband. “That dream again?” she asked, in her soft southern drawl.  “Yeah. Yeah it was. Can’t  get over it, Laura.” Laura spoke soothingly, as she placed her arm around his trembling shoulders. “The mirror dream again” she said, with an air of finality. “What can it mean?” George demanded. “I get up, walk across the room, and as I get closer, I see Osama bin Laden where I should be seeing me! I end up staring right up in his face, when I should be staring at me!”  

I wonder if this has ever happened. I think Osama Bin Laden and George Bush have some interesting things in common, and that their similarities are what can make us so uncomfortable with President Obama’s reaching out to the Muslim world, especially Iran. I’m not trying to compare them completely, and I’m not justifying what bin Laden has done. Not at all. But I do think we should look at the two and consider the potential mirror image of their approaches.