'The enemy of my enemy is my friend' - Why the CIA, Pentagon and NSA will make Kerry President

This past Thursday, I wrote a post titled "Why John Kerry Will Win the Presidency."

After sleeping on it the past few nights, I'm even more convinced it's a done deal.

As I read an item in yesterday's Washington Post about Donald Rumsfeld's having essentially been locked in the attic with the crazy aunt since Abu Ghraib broke, I got to thinking about Rumsfeld and his band of neo-con warriors - Wolfowitz, Feith, et al - and their titanic struggle to remake the Pentagon into a lean, mean fighting machine.

They struck at the entrenched enemy, but failed to kill it.

And now the enraged, wounded beast has turned its wrath on the New Age Defense crew.

It won't be pretty.

The least of it is that Bush will lose as a result.

Kerry will be delighted to install Sam Nunn or his equivalent "Old School"-type as Secretary of Defense.

How do you spell F-22 Raptor?

The Air Force says it's gonna need 277 of 'em - at a quarter billion dollars PER PLANE, for a total of around $70 billion - to fight the next Cold War should the Soviet Union suddenly reconstitute itself.

The plane was designed in 1981, at the height of the Evil Empire's perceived threat.

The Evil Empire's long since gone but the plane, as Robert Evans might say,

stays in the picture.

Ever since the CIA

was created under the provisions of the National Security Act in 1947, it has been at loggerheads with the Pentagon, growing its own enormous, compartmentalized bureaucracy.

Never - until this election - has it perceived its interests to be anywhere near congruent with those of the Pentagon.

But the Venn Diagrams

now overlap.

Big-time, as Dick Cheney might say.

And don't forget the NSA - National Security Agency, aka "No Such Agency" - and its supercomputers.

They monitor every word spoken on the telephone by everyone in the world.

And every email sent by anyone to anyone.

Powerful search algorithms that make Google look like a kindergartner scan for key words.

Yeah, you can be sure the NSA is down with its usual rivals in this one.

There's an old adage: "The enemy of my enemy is my friend."

Never was there a more succinct statement describing the CIA, Pentagon and NSA right now, two days before the Presidential election.

Trust me - there won't be any fingerprints on this operation.

It never happened.