Quick Takes: North Korea, Global Warming, NY Terror Thwarted, London Terror Anniversary, SWIFT Treason..

I'm musing on larger posts on the subject of North Korea, and also a reflection on Winston Churchill. So in the meantime, a couple of quick news items to spur discussion:

• Today it was announced that an international terror plot targeting New York City transit was uncovered with foreign assistance. No word on whether the effort to stop the terrorists was leaked by Al Queda Times, otherwise known as the New York Treason. News Reports describe "A significant development in this investigation was the arrest of a key suspect by Lebanese authorities." Anyone think this "significant development" would have taken place if Syria still controlled Lebanon? One more advantage to the Bush Keystone Strategy in Iraq that keeps Americans safe in the War on Terror.
• And speaking of the New York Treason, The American Spectator's "Prowler" has an inside source which reveals that reporters covering the disclosure of the SWIFT terror funds monitoring program sought to uncover additional details of an ONGOING investigation. Also, investigators looking into the leak feel that it must have been "fairly high-ranking, former officials who want to make life difficult for us and what we do for whatever reasons." Have they talked to Former Clinton Justice Official Jamie Gorelick yet?
• And you may wish to add this 1986 editorial by the late Washington Post Publisher Katherine Graham to your file on responsible journalism in a time of war. In it, she describes how irresponsible reporting of sources and methods may have led to the deaths of 241 Marines in the bombing of the barracks in Lebanon.
• This is the one year anniversary of the terrorist attacks in London that killed 52 and injured 700. In the wake of that atrocity, have the British become more stronger in their resolve to fight terror? Melanie Phillips, the author of Londonistan describes the British disease. Did these attacks bring the United States and the British closer together? Gerard Baker, writing in the Times of London worries that the impulse by some to blame America may trump the reality check necessary to fight and WIN this war. Our friends at A Tangled Web, one of the best "Brit-blogs" have more.
• And in the Global Warming portfolio, an excellent commentary by John Stossel. In few words and clear language, Stossel, from ABC News, does an excellent debunk of global warming baloney.
• As for North Korea, isn't it interesting that those who decry U.S. efforts to "go it alone" with unilateral action are now demanding we do just that in regard to North Korea? And of course the Clinton revisionist machine is working overtime to convince those who do not pay close attention to these matters that the last time such a unilateral approach was tried it was anything but a total disaster landing us directly in the worse situation we find today.