Hey there, cp :) Having a crazy day. LOL Howboutyou ?
Just laid back here, trying to summon the energy to go walking. What's crazy there?
"I do not exaggerate. Bush-hatred has reached such intensity that CIA officers and other bureaucrats are leaking major secrets about anti-terrorism policy and communications intelligence that undermine our ability to fight Islamic extremism.Would newspapers in the midst of World War II have printed the fact that the United States had broken German and Japanese codes, enabling the enemy to secure its communications? Or revealed how and where Nazi spies were being interrogated? Nowadays, newspapers win Pulitzer Prizes for such disclosures. In Congress and in much of the media, the immediate reaction to news that the National Security Agency was intercepting international terrorist communications was not to say, "Good work - and how can we help?" Rather, it was to scream about a "domestic spying" scandal, as though Richard Nixon were back in the White House and tapping the telephone of Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean."
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"People also should heed the warning delivered by Princeton University professor Bernard Lewis, one of the nation's foremost scholars of Islam, before the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life here last month.
Lewis, now 90, cast the struggle with Islamic extremism in WWII terms - it is 1938, he said, and "we seem to be more in the mode of Chamberlain at Munich rather than of Churchill."
Osama bin Laden and other would-be Hitlers, he said, consider the United States "an effete, degenerate, pampered enemy incapable of real resistance." It's part of the pattern that we fight among ourselves as much as against our enemies. This is more than serious. It's dire. "
I don't often agree with Kondracke but on this one he is absolutely right on. In fact, just today, the NY Daily News reported information about the ongoing investigation of a terrorist plot on NY. To what end ? Is NY any safer thanks to that report ? No ! However, it forced the FBI and all the other agencies who have been working on this for months to go public and now the terrorists are scattering like the cockroaches they are.