GAO report + commentary

This is many days old - I'm commenting now because someone else provided really good commentary that I'll try to paraphrase accurately.

First: As folks have likely already heard, the GAO released a report on U.S. counter-terrorism progress last week:

The United States
Lacks Comprehensive
Plan to Destroy the
Terrorist Threat and
Close the Safe Haven
in Pakistan’s Federally
Administered Tribal
Areas

Not a particularly succinct title, but at least it's informative!

On tonight's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, correspondent Rob Riggle provided excellent commentary regarding the report. The video isn't posted yet; neither is a transcript, so what follows is a paraphrase from memory - likely not quite accurate:

"In 2001 we got a report, bin Laden determined to strike U.S. from bases in Afghanistan. Now we get another report, bin Laden determined to strike U.S. from bases in Pakistan. Seven f-ing years later and we've come full circle. We could have ended up here if we'd done NOTHING!"

Riggle goes on to note the influence this report'll have on W: "Oh, yeah. This president is very responsive to written criticism!" (Again, all quotations are remembered... but I'm confident the substance is accurate!)

Why is the most penetrating analysis these days found on The Daily Show & The Colbert Report? Something's gone seriously wrong with MSM. (Yeah - I know I'm not the first to make this observation!)

Stop the madness!