Before it started, and long after it ends, the 9/11 Comission will leave its mark in our history as the great political circus that explains, not through pedagogy, but through demonstration, the way our government’s beaurocracy works and just how bad it could work against our national security.

It is an investigation to prove if something that has happened could have been prevented.

I need to review my philosophy and logic classes to figure out if there is something logically flawed about its very purpose. I spoke with a friend online last night and asked him if he watched The Condi’s testimony. His response, to paraphrase: Why bother? We know who flew those planes into those buildings. We know who’s to blame for 9/11.

We who are firmly resolved to win the war against Militant Islam — there, I said it, you can call me religiously intolerant now — are watching the news and keeping track of this, sending our energies of hope and showing support not only for our troops but for their civilian leaders (which is the most we can do aside from living without tailoring our lives to the threat of desturtcion). As we do this, there are those who are patriotic in their questioning of our direction as a nation, and then there are those like Ted Kennedy who empower our enemies by exercising their freedom of speech irresponsibly and emboldening our enemies by showing a divided home front.

To wit, from an important editorial from the Ayn Rand Institute:

And now, both Republicans and Democrats wage a domestic war, senselessly and desperately trying to find a fall guy for September 11. Thus, too unprincipled to identify the enemy and wage all-out war, but not yet completely blind to their own ineffectualness, leaders from both parties resignedly admit that we’re in for a “long war” and that there will be more terrorists attacks on U.S. soil

I long for the day that we set our petty differences aside for a second and go after the terrorists, and Iran in particular, which is the originating influence against us. I hope we finally win this first step, Iraq, which has become the point of confluence — the nexus — where our war on Militant Islam is just beginning. This is an all-or-nothing fight, dear friends, and yes, we are in it for the long haul. Our very civilization is on the line, and I have more things to worry about than hippies, and the hippies have more things to worry about than evil right-winging capitalists like myself. We’re all Americans to our enemies, and we all have crosshairs pointed at our heads. Do we have to wait to dodge the bullet before we shoot back?

[Link thanks to Cox And Forkum.]