You mentioned the ‘no peeing on the plane’ policy.

Interesting that the police state handed to us by the neocons sent a few armed agents to one of the first bloggers to report on this, looking to find out how the information was leaked. They confiscated his computer, after grilling him for three hours the day before. Amazing.

Why wasn’t the door slammed in their faces? Why weren’t they told to come back with a warrant signed by a judge and plenty of guns?

She has zero credibility.

very astute

[I have been writing with the same consistency about Ms. Coulter for years; this post mirrors exactly what I said in my Coulter Articles and Coulter Blog crypt. My analysis of the “Coulter Craft” has never budged, starting with “Coughing Up Some Coulter Fur Balls,” excerpted above. Could your comprehension skills be mirroring your spelling?—ILANA MERCER.]

I see it as a failure of leadership of our political system, both parties, the fourth estate, the academic world, as well as those at the top of the various professions. To try to ascribe the current situation to any one or two groups is unfounded. Our so-called leaders in Washington are the lowest common denominators in our society. So what do we expect. It is up to us voters to keep replacing them until they do what we wish.

No doubt Bush/Rice made many mistakes all around. But he/she were handed the evolving mess from the previous administration. And clearly the first year in office was not enough time to figure things out. Armchair quarterbacking can be a pleasant exercise, but I haven’t read any options put forth on what one should have done then and what should be done now.

Let’s read the plan.

The current equation for foreign policy seems to be:

1 Major Terrost Attack on American Soil

=

2 Muslim Countries Invaded

+

Y “Moderate Muslim” refugees (see Countries Invaded) and/or immigrants given U.S. citizenship, where Y is any number you like x100,000.

Since Y inevitably increases the number of attacks resulting in the invasion of Muslim countries, which in turn increases Y, in no time at all we’ll have 100 million Muslims in America and an Army post in every nation of Araby.

Or am I missing something?

– – Obama’s “Foreign Policy Change”(which is miniscule and mostly cosmetic anyway) did not enable Nidal or Umar’s attacks whatsoever

– – Ineffective anti-missile weapons in Europe are complete non-sequiturs

– – The inept workforce, State Department handing visas to everyone, political correctness, inflexible “rule-based” security procedures, and ass-covering federal agencies withholding info from other agencies occurred under Bush as with Obama

— The attack was not “nearly successful” ! It is not clear that much would have happened beyond Umar’s pants flaming.

— Some of the Yemeni Al-Queda trainers are actually Gitmo graduates released by Bush/Cheney

— The politicians babbling about like backscatter X-ray and “no peeing on the plane” represent just more of the reactive nonsense that has gone on since 9/11

Even when “conservatives” hold sound ideas, they would prefer to make cheap, idiotic political points to fire up their base than to actually explain the soundness of principles in a non-partisan manner. These partisan warriors would prefer a Romney governing like a jerk than an Obama governing well.