Well, we mobilized our defenses and sent them over to where they said we needed to go to fix things fast like they said would happen on a budget they promised it would cost and we're suppossedly getting the results they claimed would follow. That's something isn't it?
Change of leadership rapido. That's number one in any corporate structure where failures far exceed the victories.
London has the most sophisticated protection net anywhere - and it's run efficiently unlike our own "high visability" projects that remain unfunded or under repeat agency leadership changes (how many efforts to combine interagency intel sharing so far in the last three years?)
We're debating erasing Social Security while the Taliban have won back control of two provinces and fourteen cities in Afghanistan. Terri Shaivo's death was interrupted by Congress AND the president for eight days while the Londoner participants were praying for preparation readying for the deed. Good call and great agenda. Please read what was told Congress yesterday by two vastly differing opinions...one from the heads of the combined intelligence services, and the other from Rumsfeld, Bush's main man. If we can't determine that we're led by complete incompetence, then maybe we should just suffer the results of this extreme idiocy - -
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28876-2005Feb16.html
It's time we boot these incompetents out of office and roll-up our collective sleaves and recall the Joint Chiefs who were deplaced and have combat experience but were let go because they didn't swear alliance with a political party line. It's time we reward FBI agents who whistleblew the screw-ups from within the agency instead of condemn them as "traitors". It's time we forget about finding out what we read in the libraries and fund port security. If the White House can threaten national security by routing a clandestine agent specialist in Islamic matters in order to "punish" her husband from revealing embarrasing lies propagated by the White House - some arrests should be made pronto.
Are we interested in security or just the word "security" as it comes form the same mouths that were completely wrong about Iraq, uranium cake, Jessica Lynch, and Terri Shaivo (just to name a few).
"Trust us, we know what we're talking about". "Major combat operations are over".
Sorry. I can't.
And yes, we should...do something. Quickly.