23-24 December 2006

Well, it appears that Al Qaeda is not going to succeed at the attack on London, which was said by ABC News to be imminent, and which the UK's Home Secretary said "would take a miracle to prevent it." In the world of counterterrorism and high level intelligence it is not unusual to withhold information, or even send disinformation in order to put the enemy off the trail of the progress of the hunt of the multiple terrorist plots (more than 20, according to MI5). Perhaps this is what happened here. If so, no problem. Hopefully it put the enemy in a state of overconfidence, being set up to be apprehended by the British (and possibly other) authorities.

As Winston Churchill once said, "In war, truth is a commodity indeed so precious that it must be guarded by a phalanx of lies." The leftist and godless press around the world cannot handle such a notion of being used by government as pawns in war. I for one, can only smile with pleasure at the notion of fools made out to be fools. But then again, I would personally march out the entire editorial board of the New York Times, along with most of its correspondents, and have them shot dead as traitors. But then again, who am I, but a patriot who doesn't understand his place?

It also appears that the Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the more moderate spiritual leader of the Iraqi Shiites, has rejected a U.S.-backed plan for a new Iraqi government that would have cut off Moqtada al-Sadr and his Sadr militia from further involvement in the government. Someone should have taken out al-Sadr three years ago, when we had the chance, but the opportunity appears to have passed. We have had multiple near misses with that rascal, but then again, it appears that Iran and her surrogates, of whom al-Sadr is a prominent one, keeps dodging the real and political bullets shot by the U.S., and they become stronger by the day.

Christmas is a bleak time for a patriot who believes that there will be true peace only on the other side of war. Every deal, every truce, every arrangement among warring parties in the Middle East, simply prolongs the inevitable, and ensures that when all-out does break out, it will be a darkness far beyond imagining by our history-bereft global society. Much reason for prayer.

In spite of everything, Merry Christmas. Jesus is still God, and the world cannot ever set that truth aside. So, "good Christian men and true, rejoice, with heart and soul and voice. Jesus Christ is born....to save."

--Belisarius II--