Of Annenberg and an open Public accounting of deeds, and mistakes. Private Not for profit corporations have become a neo-marxian equivalent of the collective in a market driven state. These are “agencies of change” and the folks who run them are not at all interested in sharing anything that might put in danger the source of their funding. Unless of course not sharing would result in the removal of said funding. It seems a maze of funding options and sources that would make tracking Al Qaeda finance seem like a walk in the park is employed to not only muddy the water on whether it is a private NGO or a Public OTGO, and I foresee years of lawsuits in trying to prize the information out of their hands. It will be a task greater than repealing executive privilege.

Or they could just open the books, and the Annenberg files, so we, all of us can look. The risk is that we would all of us reach our own conclusions on Annenberg, on “OH”, and on a host of similar institutions of high fraud and higher flim flam.

On Pakistan, my impression is that as long as the leader of the ruling majority party blames Musharif for the death of Benazir Bhutto, no progress can be made against the Taliban or against Al Qaeda in the Frontier Provinces. Afghanistan and all those hi-tech plans are held captive by the widower husband’s morbid blindness, while Pakistan is strangled from within. It is the only explanation that makes sense.

If we cannot move military through Poland to support Georgia, the only sensible route is up from Iraq, through Turkey (and perhaps Iran). I am sure the turks would not mind helping us eliminating another threat or two, even if it came to an armed confrontation. but no one is willing to bet the store yet on the American gut check which will be the November elections.