This is simple, folks. Don't make it harder than it really is.

A) The conclusion as to who is going to hang for all this "torture stuff" has already been determined. That is why it has taken this long to come to the conclusion that an investigation is even going to happen, regardless of its scope. They've already worked out a prosecutorial guideline which will swerve around any and all high-level officials who need to be protected from a wider-ranging probe. For all of you who are thinking that this "narrow" inquiry is going to open up a larger can of worms, stop kidding yourselves. It is not going to happen that way. Need proof? See Abu Ghraib investigation [sic]. Need more proof? See Anthrax/Bruce Ivins investigation [sic].

B) Powers (political) That Bee realize that we citizens are a largely uninformed, misinformed (those are very different), slothful, and dispassionate group with a short attention span and memory as a whole. That being the case, the "solution" to all this is to quell the rabble-rousers with a super narrowly defined show-trial or two, take down a couple no-name so-and-sos, and present the results with great fanfare and pronounce the entire affair "settled--once and for all." That way, the "Looking-Forward-Not-Back" mantra can be dusted off and used at the next Horrors of Injustice distraction that comes up.

C) The producers and directors of this Gov't of Horrors Gameshow realize that with each passing day, week, and month this issue is left unresolved, the more crises, situations, panics, and pandemics will bubble up to the surface of the news cycle, thus drawing more and more attention away from this issue, making it less important that the "right thing" actually get done. No point in upsetting the elite and powerful's apple cart if a little time and tap-dancing will maintain the status quo just fine.

Is this view cynical? Hell yeah. But those who are willing to view the truth in its unadulterated, un-rose-colored form know it is exactly what is happening and what is going to happen.

Meanwhile, we get bombarded by Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh bullshit and do nothing except sit here and type in a blog comments section. Yay us.

Glad you have seen the light. Notice you have received exactly one response? And it was from the *gasp* dreaded LondonLad. And now I am the second crazy(!)to respond. Notice a trend? Two responses to such a completely logical and indisputably true post by you.

If you have really made the paradigm shift and aren't going to let them draw you back into their fantasies, you are going to want to prepare yourself. Perpare to become very frustrated with your "peers" here.

I've felt like this for some time, and have spoken on these pages about it on several occasions. The more Glenn writes, the more I learn it is likely the only real answer that has any chance of effecting any flavor of "real change." The fact that it hasn't caused instant massing of troops at the border doesn't frustrate me to the extent it does you. While I certainly feel the urgency that you do, I look at this as more of a planting of a seed in hopes that its merits will take root and eventually gain a wider acceptance, a flourishing of ideas and support, and then ultimately turning into an organization, followed by mass action. You can make fun of my analogies if you want, but how much success has your chosen method of motivation had?

I think what Glenn does here is absolutely invaluable, and the more exposure he gets on a national basis, the better the chances that his ideas will gain widespread acceptance, and the better the chances masses of people will come to be educated about what's being done to them. The comments section is a learning tool for me. And perhaps some day it will be a breeding ground of action on a scale like we've never seen.

Rome wasn't built in a day. Waking up near 300 million zombies and taking back what is rightfully ours won't happen in that timeframe either. We are looking at a hundred-headed monster here, and decapitating them all is going to take some real doing.