All that about being back to blogging, then I trail off and go dark.

Why? Truthfully, I am discouraged. About where we are headed. All signs point to doom.

I guess we have to hang on until Hillary gets elected so it will be okay to kill terrorists again, but seems that we really don't have the stomach for it anyway.

Hope the zakat isn't too high.

I watched the 9/11 show tonight, and I wouldn't have remembered if it weren't for all the hoopla. It listed "The Cell" as a source, and it followed it pretty well. Of course, film usually leaves stuff out. Some bits that were missed or very lightly touched:

The Kehane murder and what happened around that. How jurisdictional turf and the need to get a conviction conspired to keep the conspiracy from being broken - 2 guys in the WTC bombing were part of that plot.

Ramzi Yusef, when he came into the US, was traveling with another person - that person got hung up by Customs and his bags were impounded. In those bags, lots of bomb making documentation. But we couldn't look in the bags, of course. Only in the run up to the trial of Yusef were they able to see the documents and use them.

John Miller, one of the authors of "The Cell," was not just a reporter but had also been in the police department, so when he shows up at O'Neill's party, he isn't an unknown.

We'll see how the rest goes.

But, man, that Nightline - looks like Disney's sop to the Clinton crew was to dump on George Tenet. Wow, it was just brutal.

Today's Washington Post editorial regarding the Plame case is noted around the blogosphere - seems the Armitage thing has actually affected them.

Many note the hypocrisy of the Post writing, regarding Wilson, "It's unfortunate that so many people took him seriously." The Post, of course, being a bastion of the credulous when it came to Wilson and this story. But I think the real hypocrisy is that the Post - at least in the form of "it's most famous employee" - knew the truth about the story all along. Reporters knew who had "leaked" the info all along - and they refused to tell us. That's right, the purveyors of truth simply would not tell it to us. And the Post dares to write: "All of that might have been avoided had Mr. Armitage's identity been known three years ago."

Yeah, well, thanks a lot. You didknow 3 years ago, but for your own reasons, you let it go on.