But the 9/11 commission has changed my view of the administration. I now believe that if Al Gore had been president, he would have invaded Afghanistan right away, fortified the cockpit doors, issued an executive order that made the CIA and FBI share intel, grounded all planes the moment "chatter" started mentioning "a winged victory, like the bird of righteousness," and subjected all young Arab males to full-body searches in airports. Pakistan would have come around to our point of view right away.

Yep.
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I am struck once again by the incomparable hold VIETNAM has over some people. They don�t seem to realize how the use of this inapt example demonstrates their inability to grasp the nature of new and different conflicts. When I was in college, El Salvador was Vietnam. When I was in Washington, Kuwait was Vietnam. Afghanistan was briefly Vietnam when we hadn�t won the war after a week. It�s Warholian: in the future, all conflicts will be Vietnam for 15 minutes.
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This is not a new war. It began the day the "students" swarmed the US Embassy in Tehran. And Senator Kerry worries that a military response to these thugs will inflame the Muslim world against us? If so, that speaks volumes about the Muslim world he seems to know so much about -- by his logic they prefer death and defeat to comity and cooperation.

Good Friday seemed like an appropriate day to see The Passion of the Christ. Wow. There were only three times my inner smart-aleck took over: one flashback, I'm thinking "30 years old, and He lives with his mother... dunno about that guy." Secondly, when Judas was being tormented by the small boys, I was wishing he'd be like Elias and set some bears on them. Third, at the end, when the Temple was torn, I'm looking at Annas and Caiphas and thinking "oops."

GOOD movie. Before we went, we looked for our cache out at the theater and couldn't find it. This particular verschussinger cache gives us more trouble than the other 20 combined.

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Steven Denbeste: "The most important thing that happened in the last few days is that many of the most dangerous people in Iraq gave us an excuse to destroy them. CENTCOM won't throw this opportunity away."

A marine writes home.

Glenn, on Bob Kerrey, the other side. There better be. He was totally rude to Condi, especially on why the Bush administration, 4 months later, didn't do anything about the Cole.

I did note the Gov agrees with me that a full-time legislature has too much time on its hands.

A couple of funnies: We must get out of this hostile land. And this cartoon, in case you missed it last week. (This is the trouble about writing a week late, I tend to repeat stuff. With the 'puter troubles, at the same time, I've lost a lot.)