The Gulf States Are Happy For Us

It Was An Echo Of Director Comey's Testimony That Trump Showed No Curiosity, No Interest, No Concern Over The Russia Hack. The Only Element Of It That Concerned Him Was How It Might Impact Him Personally. That Says, I Think, A Lot About Where The President Is Coming From, But It Was Quite Jarring Given This Was An Attack On Our Democracy By A Foreign Power.

In Fact, The Converse Is True: At A Time When The United States Has Been Called On For A Level Of Moral Leadership, Vision And Inspiration Not Seen Since World War Ii, We Cannot Afford To Dissemble About Crimes Against Humanity.

The Gulf States Are Happy For Us To Fight And Die. That's Good For Everybody, But The Americans Fighting And Dying.

Unless Action Is Taken Soon - Unless We Can Display The Same Vision Of That Earlier Period - We Will Lose The Treasure Of California's Open Space And Environmental Beauty.

But It Is Equally Incontrovertible That If Our Intelligence Gathering Process Is Seriously Flawed, We Had Better Find Out And Find Out Fast If We Are To Avoid Another Sept. 11.