Our ponderously affected politicians sermonize about our failure to penetrate al Qaeda as "proof" the intel community has failed us. They point to that weirdo from Marin County as an example of "how easy" it is to get to bin Ladin. That is how easy it WAS, if you just followed orders when in training camp and if all you wanted to do was set eyes on the great man. It takes five years to learn to read and write Arabic fluently. Then, as in every country, there are accents and dialects which will let everyone know where you are from. Who in your hometown knows you? What is your family? What mosque did you attend as a child? etc., etc., Then in Pakistan they speak Urdu, in Iran they speak mainly Farsi; in Afghanistan and surrounding they speak: Pashto, Dari, Farsi, Baluchi, Pashai, Nuristani,and other lesser dialects. In fact there are over 75 different and distinct languages spoken in various areas of the Middle East. Real easy to penetrate.

AND THEN you cannot fake being a Muslim. A Muslim lives the religion 24 hours per day. Everything is a ritual set in stone, from going to the bathroom (you cannot face Mecca or turn your rear end to Mecca), you must wash in a certain way: wash the hands up to the wrists, rinse the mouth with water, clean the nostrils with water, wash the face from the forehead to chin and from ear to ear, wash the right arm and then the left one upto the elbows, pass the wet fingers on the head and in the ear holes, then wash first the right foot and then the left one up to the ankle - three times and in the exact order mentioned. And if someone is near you and sees you make an error....you have been busted. Every other daily activity from walking, entering and leaving a house, to combing the hair is strictly proscribed. Every Muslim has learned everything possible about the religion from all the dead imams and heroes going back to 636AD. A thirty year old Muslim has been learning about the religion for twenty five years, every day.

Listening to the counterfeit experts in Congress pontificate grandly about the failings of the CIA make me want to relieve myself on their wives dresses. None of them are interested in the war on terror, only making Bush look worse than he does already and getting us to forget that Clinton was every bit as sleepy.

America is dealing with a people who have dedicated their entire beings to the practice of their religion; you cannot fake it for very long. As I've remarked many times in this blog, 99% of all spies in history have been turncoats. Since Muslims regard our society as immoral, harmful to the soul, and a threat to their personal tranquility they ain't turning....

As a now secular society (Godless) we have lost our ability to deal honestly with people of faith; to respect people who believe in God. On the contrary, we regard them as stupid, ignorant, creatures of contempt and hopelessly "out of it". We don't even respect Christianity any more. God is dead.

Right.