This photo accompanying this CNN story about the foiled German terror plot really grabbed my attention.



The symbology just jumps right out at me. Masked men escorting a masked, blindfolded, zip-tied captive. You know immediately the guy in the middle is in deep shit, but I find it a little disturbing that you have to read the caption below the photo to know the good guys from the bad. Taken alone, the photo is an image the America I grew up in would have despised, that of a man being disappeared.

It also reveals some truths about the Global War on Terror. Not the superpower floundering stupidly in the desert protecting it's oil supply War on Terra, but the real track-'em-down-and-remove-'em-from-society fight against organized terrorism. It's being fought by law enforcement, not military, and it's largely being fought in secret. The rest of the world is quietly getting the job done while our preznit and Congress argue over how badly The Surge has failed. It's mind-boggling.