Posted by
Nesto on Thursday, July 06, 2006 9:40:01 PM
It's been a depressing time for national security lately. Anyone who's even remotely seen the news or talked to someone outside of their cave will know about the New York Times, USAToday, LATimes and others have had their way with out national security (with so many journalists aiming for pulitzers by spilling security secrets who can keep count?) .
It''s enough to make you want to pull your hair out, and move to Montana. Perhaps I shouldn't pick on the good folk in a notably fine state, but it seemed like an absurd notion at the time. Anyway, you get the point.
Serious commentators have made thoughtful and reasoned arguments on how this hurts national security, reveals a bureaucracy at war with our current administration, and gives Al Qaeda and their ilk way too many things to laugh about. If we can't take our own national security seriously, who will?
I say, enough of the serious debate for now. It's time to either laugh or cry and after doing a great deal of crying, I am looking for a good guffaw. That's why I say, PRIVATIZE NATIONAL SECURITY!
Why Privatize? Good question. I posit one recent bit of news; that is the arrest of three individuals trying to steal and peddle Coke's secret formula to their valiant competitors at Pepsi. They, dear friends, are already in jail while any number of leakers, journalists and Bill Keller, remain free and able to strike again.
What does that say about the US? Maybe it says, I value my Coke more than my downtown? Didn't Patrick Henry say "Give me liberty of give me death?" Give me liberty or..I'll settle for a Coke.
Frustrating, sure, but it's enough to make you want to fire the entire national intelligence bureaucracy and hire any major corporations' security team to do the job. At least they can keep a secret. That, or we can copyright national security secrets and just charge newspapers with copyright violation for printing them without permission.