Fred, I can never find any of those intelligent ring-wing commentaries, probably for the same reason I can never find intelligent TV -- because it makes for bad ratings, not because it isn't possible. Many of our conservative MudCat commentators can do a MUCH better job.

However, it also bears pointing out that military and intelligence analysts have ALSO been saying for the past decade that terrorism was the most likely threat, yet the military industrial complex kept chugging along, because no one was willing to tackle it and turn it in a different (less profitable?) direction.