You have your salaried guy and then you have the person who cares. America needs unity, a common cause, something that stands outside of elections. But, we have lost this and people have not noticed. They go to work and that is what it is. At best, a chore.

This is fall out from the baby boomer generation. When “freedom” no longer means freedom for the poor and oppressed… and freedom means free and cheap drugs and sex and supporting ruthless monsters like the Viet Cong… what is left?

It isn’t that the Left understands these things. The vast majority of them do not. It is on an unconscious level. They are the flotsam and jetsom being pulled by much bigger currents then themselves.

So, these kinds of people end up everywhere. CIA. Senate staffing. Law enforcement. Everywhere.

Bin Laden means nothing to them… except as a convenient guise. They do not even know what means anything to them at all. Not everyone is pure.

They are caught up in their own impurities, their own shams…

But, as a nation, we have lost very much in terms of direction. I think the conservatives have it. I think, in some ways, what we have today is brighter then ever before. But, should we expect unity of purpose? It is impossible in government and almost anywhere else.

Which mean I came across this little tidbit after coming here earlier

perhaps this indicates more how widespread the damage control/panic is spreading

http://www.abledangerblog.com/2006/04/clinton-nsc-team-targets-weldon.html

…Porter Goss has some serious housecleaning to do. And that explains why we keep hearing about disgruntled CIA officers – they are the ones who Goss is looking at as having leaked sensitive and classified information about operations crucial to obt…..