Once upon a time our strength and solidarity as a nation ready to defend what is stands for was well understood both here and abroad. The rest of the world knew to tread lightly on us.

Today we are approaching the opposite. Anything we stand for is up for debate, change or for sale. Anybody can tread on us and we say uh-uh-uhhhhh, if you do that we won't talk to you any more!

Our enemies watch the media, read our web sites, study our laws, watch our political circus and use any and all of it to advance their goals.

Now they get to watch the PURELY POLITICAL circus about US intelligence. They watch the US government do to their capabilities what they as enemies could not hope to achieve.....the emasculation of our capabilities to defend.

Apparently the political agenda (either party) has much more value to the incumbents than the core values and capabilities of the USA.

The terrorists lay in wait with their patience to deliver upon their promise to kill as many Americans as possible. Does anybody think that promise has gone away? Oh those words already forgotten.....9/11, lest we forget...

As the terrorists have said, the next event will make 9/11 look like a school rehearsal. With the political bickering, our agencies will tread lighter than they have at any time in our history for fear of POLITICAL retribution. As a result, terrorist have a more permissive playing field. So all they have to do, as they have in the past, join us, learn our weaknesses, attain the technology they have the patience to wait for and then as promised, light up a nuke or nukes in one or more of our major cities.

Fear mongering. Not at all. Just quoting the terrorists who have proven time and again they keep their promises. With our country economically down on it's knees, emasculating it's defense capabilities and pre occupied with POLITICAL/PERSONAL gain as the main agendas......we are oh so vulnerable.

Maybe there is a terrorist czar in the making.......we don't seem able to learn anymore!!!!!

btk