If Only They Were This Good Back In '01...

Did you hear that the Capital and the White House were evacuated today, and jet fighters were scrambled into the skies over Washington, D.C. when an unidentified airplane entered restricted airspaceover the Nation's Capital?

My, how those staunch defenders must be proud of their bold, decisive action. My, how we needed them to be just half as effective back in September, 2001. Just think of how many lives they could have saved, had they acted then with the same efficiency that they did today.

Of course, today's threatening airplane was a small private plane, and not a commercial jetliner. But the point remains the same: today, we did good. Back in 2001, we were humiliatingly, fatally bad. And as of this writing, not a single one of the people in charge of our air defenses on 9/11 have been so much as reprimanded for their failure to do their jobs. But I bet they're handing out "attaboys" today.

More later...
Paul