Security?

Gary Wills has a great editorial in the New York Times that deserves a reading. Wills points out the too-often forgotten obvious, that the President is the Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy. That's it. Not the National Guard and in particular not the rest of us. And Wills argues that the ongoing militarizaiton of American life is -- surprise, surprise -- undermining the foundations of the Constitution.

The editorial ("At Ease, Mr. President") also neatly summarizes our current 66-year-old "security" predicament.

"The wartime discipline imposed in 1941 has never been lifted, and 'the duration' has become the norm. World War II melded into the cold war, with greater secrecy than ever — more classified information, tougher security clearances. And now the cold war has modulated into the war on terrorism."