A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention….

IntelCenter chief executive Ben Venzke said the chance of an al Qaeda attack on U.S. soil has grown based on the militant network’s increasing references to the American homeland in public messages.

“Our leading thinking is that we are closer now to an attempt at a major attack in the United States than at any point since 9/11,” Venzke said.

Taranto observes:

There is no denying Venzke is right. If an al Qaeda attack is in the future, then it is closer now than at any point since 9/11. Venzke has stumbled onto something profound: the linear and sequential nature of time.

Thank god the “experts” are not in charge of this war…

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Like Valerie Plame, Scheuer is an unabashed Leftist, as he showed in his first CIA-approved book. He openly admires Al Qaida — remember, this is the guy who was in charge of protecting us before 9/11 (!!!)

Note to next Republican President, ….. Do not try to set a “New Tone”. FIRE every leftist, liberal Democrat in every position throughout the entire government, as your fist command after taking the “Oath of Office”.

He’s got the retirement bucks, the book sales bucks, and the contacts.

Do the world a favor, Dr. Brilliantine, find your mortal enemy.

Show up Bush.

They’re very simply defined in two phrases: spread out America’s forces and bleed the United States to bankruptcy. I’d argue America has been under attack successfully every day since 9/11 from that perspective.

Dude, Clinton was OUT of office by 9/11/01. Since then, our military strength has grown and our economy has expanded with both unemployment and interest rates having dropped to low levels. Let’s hope that the democrats don’t repeat the mistakes of the 90’s and pull another Clinton era economic and military gutting phase.

The emphasis section, above, is very significant. He released the book on July 15, 2004, explicitly to affect the election in 2004, negatively for Mr. Bush.

He was ‘right’ then. And he’s ‘right’ now.

Only way this strategy would work is if Al Qaeda plans to work with China to get China to invade SF

This guy’s way off the talking points reservation. Doesn’t he know that all this war waged by the military-industrial complex is just shoring up our economy? Killin’ is good for America!

I saw it on DU.

A better one: Gaius Baltar.

Looks are deceiving. He’s a nut.

Bryan, I don’t know if you or Michelle have contacts with the ability to get in touch with him, but I would honestly like to hear his response, and whether he thinks he was represented fairly in this article. The last time I saw him (within the last month), I think on O’Reilly, he seemed to pretty much be on “our side”.

Sure as hell a lot worse off.

I suppose the fact basically nothing has happened in this country since then isn’t newsworthy?

Doesn’t Bush understand? Once you drop a JDAM, you can’t get it back! You just spent a thousand dollars! On what, like 20 jihadis??? Big deal! There’s plenty more where THEY came from! How long can we afford to do this? We’ll go broke! This is how they destroyed the Soviet Union! They WANT to die for allah! Blah blah blah!

Does Mr Scheuer think we will simply lay down and play dead?

He thinks knows the Donks will have.

Remember him, author of Imperial Hubris? That book made essentially the same argument, which is that we can’t win for losing. Whatever we do won’t work. Whatever we try will fail. &c. In Scheuer’s world, everything works to bin Laden’s benefit, including Israel’s self-defensive actions against Hezbollah.

Funny, that sounds like all of the members of the Neville Chamberlain wing of the Republican party, beclowning themselves again and again by howling that “we shouldn’t ever attack Iran, no matter what, BECAUSE THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT THEY WANT US TO DO!”

Using their “logic”, Hitler and Mussolini must have been the happiest men in the history of the world right before they, out of sheer unadulterated joy, ate a bullet/got himself hanged.

spread out America’s forces and bleed the United States to bankruptcy. I’d argue America has been under attack successfully every day since 9/11 from that perspective.

I find that assessment hard to believe given the strength of our economy and the technological sophistication of our military.

I don’t have a problem with my tax dollars being spent fighting these extremist. If only Blinky Palosi would get the message.