Certainly you've heard about the bombings in London yesterday.  America's response to the attack was to "increase vigilance" within our mass transit systems, and raise the terror alert from "elevated" (yellow) to "high" (orange).  I ask you, could our response make us look any more ridiculous?  Even the Homeland Security Secretary who announced the increased terror level at a press conference said "we have no specific credible information suggesting an imminent attack here in the United States".

I heard the perfect analogy on the radio for what this is like.  You ever play fetch with a dog, but instead of throwing the ball you pretend to throw it and hide it behind your back?  The dog simply watches the motion of your arm and runs out into the field to retrieve the ball that you didn't throw.  When he realizes there's no ball, he looks all around, looks up, looks down, he's bewildered.

America is the dog and al Qaeda is the guy holding the ball.  Every time something happens, we run furiously to take action!  Sort of.  I don't consider an increased alert level to be "action".  How about securing the nation's borders?  That would be action.  How about decisively ending that litle Iraq skirmish.  That would be action too.

I'm embarrassed for my country this day.

Best wishes to those affected by the tragedy in London.