Cats Jump Twice

Tomorrow commemorates the sixty-seventh anniversary of the day that shall live in infamy. Since then, trillions of dollars have been spent by the US on defense and intelligence gathering. This was to little avail against the machinations of a handful of cave dwellers from a remote corner of Afghanistan. There were the obligatory hearings and a commission report, but basically no one ever had to take the responsibility for the failures that left America open to attack. One can not be sanguine particularly after Mumbai with a novice taking office that the malevolent force of expansionist Islam might find an opening and Pearl Harbor us in the near future. Hirohito and Hedeki Tojo did not know of dirty bombs or nuclear weapons, Osama does. Eternal vigilance has been called the price of freedom. This has never been more true or more essential to our very survival.