I think we are really paying for our disinvestment in human intelligence.

For years, the CIA has been screaming, begging, pleading for more investment in agents, and training, but the government has a hard-on for computers and electronics. Not that computers aren't good, far from it, but our ability to have people on the ground....okay spying.....has atrophied.

OBL should have been no problem, if we hadn't hamstrung our own capabilities. With the Plame revelation, it's only going to get worse, I think. And, when the gadgets fail, our ability to respond creatively will have been so unused that I am skeptical of our capabilities.

Maybe this is more of a philisophical tangent, but we can't even get a simple, outdated, routine shuttle into orbit, now. If you watch a movie like Apollo 13, you'll see people actually doing hands-on creative problem solving. Our reliance on tech has killed all our instincts.

OBL should have had a sniper's bullet in his brain by December 2001. Instead, we've gotten into two stupid, crushingly expensive wars, and look like total fools to the rest of the world.

Am I off base, here?

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