fed up with the haters..

The joke goes..

   "military intelligence....isn't that an oxymoron?"

  and I reply "how do you mean? ...Didn't you sleep in peace last night?"

Civilian and military intelligence work is pretty much a thankless job. For every intelligence failure you know about, there are probably fifty successes you don't know about. We mark September 11, 2001 on our calendar - but what about August 10, 2006? This was the day that police arrested three would-be suicide attackers who were smuggling peroxide-based explosives onboard aircraft in a dry-run of attack, which would take place on August 12th. How about the 2002 West Coast Airliner plot? The 2002 Jose Padilla plot? The 2003 Heathrow Airport plot? The 2002 Arabian Gulf Shipping plot? The 2003 Tourist Site plot? Any of those sound familiar? It's unlikely. Society is so quick to throw the military under the bus when things go wrong...