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Nearly six years after 9/11, what’s striking is how little has changed in America - and in its war effort. And yet if we can’t change ourselves, what are the chances that we can change others?

When President George W. Bush declares that the Global War on Terror is “the concentrated work of generations,” one has to wonder if he really means it.
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This is a self-righteous complaint, for Pinkerton appears to be part of the crowd who thinks this war is not a war, but a police action, and one that is really our own fault. People like him don’t take the threat seriously. If the government really implemented the necessary security aspects of war, we would have domestic surveillance and certainly surveillance of any overseas communications. So, what does Pinkerton think of the very restrained NSA program?

Back in the “Greatest Generation”, we did not worry about how politically incorrect our actions would be, we worried about how to deliver death and destruction to the enemy.

The MSM has done its best to deny this war, and to belittle every effort to fight it. It is happy to trumpet defeats and especially any defect or deficiency on our part. No wonder the MSM is in commercial decline.

News as raw fact has become a commodity that is easily available for free. People no longer have to buy Newsday to get facts. They no longer have to buy Newsday even for advertising. The news business is now about analyzing the news, putting those stories in context and explaining them. Happily, I don’t have to pay Pinkerton and his ilk anymore for analysis. I can find it here, in the comments, and I can find it in the blogs. I don’t have to wade through miles of liberal tripe to find the conservative nuggets. I can go right to the nuggets.

I have found that there is almost nothing that I can learn from a liberal, except that it is a mental disorder, and one that is dangerous to our safety and prosperity, a conclusion that is continually reinforced whenever I read an opinion piece like this one.