The Belmont Club on December 6 : "It's common to regard the story of the war on terror as a single narrative. But in reality it consists of multiple streams, which is why, despite the efforts of Representative Murtha, it will be hard to shut down. In Kazakhstan, North Waziristan, Southeast Asia, the banlieus of France, the Horn of Africa and in the Middle East, history is on the move. The only choice America really had on September 11 was to either hold itself aloof from events shaking the world or engage them.

In retrospect, there was tremendous resistance to the idea that the certainties of the 1990s had finally come to an end."

A fine post on (the day before) a day that will live in infamy. Sometimes there is no going back.