To those who most deserve it these days… our American military men and women serving this country.

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you. Please come home safely, but only when the job is done.

Today, Neal Cavuto had WWE’s John Cena and Bobby Lashley, who is himself a former Army Sergeant, on the show today to talk about the WWE’s continuing tradition to go visit and entertain the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan during the holidays. This year is the 4th year they’ve gone, and after listening to these guys talk about their love and admiration for our troops, I’ve just gotten a new respect for professional wrestling.

These guys and gals have more patriotism in their pinky fingers than most of Hollyweird has in any single one body (except for Gary Sinise, Ron Silver and a few others). I watch this event on Pay-Per-View every year, and this year will be no exception. Too bad Hollyweird is so self-obsessed they’ve dropped the ball that Bob Hope and the U.S.O. carried for so many years.

Watch the interview here.

Sorry but I’m just now getting around to editing these videos, but Oliver North’s “War Stories” this past Sunday was unbelievably fantastic! Ollie had a list of first-class luminaries and experts on Islam. They included:

• Imam Karim Abuzaid, Prince George’s (MD) Muslim Association
• Robert Baer, former CIA case officer and author of “Blow the House Down”
• Mark Bowden, investigative journalist and author of “Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America’s War with Militant Islam”
• Imam Faizul Khan, Islamic Society of the Washington, D.C., Area
• Bernard Lewis, Cleveland E. Dodge professor emeritus of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University
• Uri Lubrani, former ambassador and head of Israeli Mission to Tehran, Iran
• Oliver “Buck” Revell, former FBI deputy assistant director for Operations
• Michael Rowe, California neighbor of Adam Gadahn
• James Woolsey, former CIA director
• Sgt. Armando Ybarra, USMC (Ret.), U.S. Marine wounded in the 1983 barracks attack in Beirut, Lebanon

Dr. Wafa Sultan

According to the FoxNews website:

As you will see, the jihad being waged goes far beyond terrorists taking hostages, hijacking aircraft and the horror of suicide bombers. Its leaders proclaim independence of any state or government, but employ all of the elements of contemporary warfare: propaganda; financing; logistics; communications; covert operatives; and well-trained soldiers with modern weaponry.

You will learn about the homegrown face of terror: Adam Gadahn also known as Azzam the American. Just how did a California boy raised on a goat farm become a new face in Al Qaeda’s inner circle? Why was the Iranian revolution of 1979 the turning point in today’s modern day jihad?

In an exclusive interview, Vice President Dick Cheney tells North that the War on Terror, “is a war that we can win, but it’s a war that may take 25 or 50 years. It’s a war that we absolutely have to stay at. Only the United States can provide the leadership that the world requires to deal with this threat. If the U.S. doesn’t do it there really isn’t anybody else who can.”

You will also hear from Arthur Cummings, acting FBI deputy assistant director for counterterrorism. Walid Phares and Wafa Sultan spoke to “War Stories” as critics of terror in the name of Islam. Their comments have prompted death threats against them.

Folks, if you missed this special when it aired, be sure to check it out here. There are lessons to be learned here, and the history is laid out piece by piece. I’m also going to be posting the individual segments on YouTube, as well.

For now, you can view each here with part #1, part #2, part #3, part #4, part #5 and part #6.

I’ve been missing the brilliance of Charles Krauthammer of late on the Panel, but thankfully tonight he was on. Charles’ political savvy and acumen are matched by very few, and tonight he even brought silence at the end of one of his missives. True brilliance.

Charles: As we know from the Monica days, Clinton was an angry liar. When he lies, he gets self-righteous, indignant, in-the-face; angry, exactly as he was. And what he was saying, Richard Clarke himself was, in 2002, said there was not a comprehensive plan. All he did is he left behind what the plans had been.

But he also left behind what had been unresolved in the Clinton administration: Changing Uzbekestan’s policy, Pakistan, and helping the global alliance. The three key ingredients that the Bush administration activated after 9/11, and essentially won the war in Afghanistan in 100 days… and Clarke had said that those issues, which were the key issues, were left unresolved. I would say CRIMINALLY unresolved, because of the indecision and hesitation in the Clinton administration.

I always love it when Charles is on - a voice of reason in the wilderness of insanity.

Watch the video here.

All I can say is “wow.” I didn’t have this earlier like everybody else did because Fox News Sunday only airs in the evening in my area. So, my apologies for not getting it to you sooner.

This was quite an eye-opening experience, and according to FishBowlDC via MediaBistro, even Chris Wallace was a bit shocked by Clinton’s reaction. His words “I felt as if a mountain was coming down in front of me.” According to Chris:

I began the interview with 2 questions about Mr. Clinton’s commitment to humanitarian causes. His answers were cogent and good-humored.

Then–I asked him about his Administration’s record in fighting terror–fully intending to come back to CGI later (as indeed I did).

I asked what I thought was a non-confrontational question about whether he could have done more to “connect the dots and really go after al Qaeda.”

I was utterly surprised by the tidal wave of details–emotion–and political attacks that followed.

The President was clearly stung by any suggestion that he had not done everything he could to get bin Laden. He attacked right-wingers–accused me of a “conservative hit job”–and even spun a theory I still don’t understand that somehow Fox was trying to cover up the fact that NewsCorp. chief Rupert Murdoch was supporting his Global Initiative. I still have no idea what set him off.

Former President Clinton is a very big man. As he leaned forward–wagging his finger in my face–and then poking the notes I was holding–I felt as if a mountain was coming down in front of me.

The President said I had a smirk. Actually–it was sheer wonder at what I was witnessing.

I tried repeatedly to adhere to the ground rules–to move the President along–and back to the CGI. But he wanted to keep talking about his record fighting terror.

When it became clear he wanted to throw out the ground rules–then I just went with the flow of the interview.

That’s kind of how I felt, too, watching it. In fact, I thought Clinton was going to punch Chris a couple of times. Talk about someone in need of anger management!?!?!?!? This is the poster boy for that, and since he’s had heart problems in the past, this is almost self-explanatory for that. He’s got some temper, doesn’t he?

I took a series of screen shots of Clinton going from calm to rage in 0 to 60. These are in sequence, and show the degradation of the tone put forth by Clinton:

You can read the full transcript at RealClearPolitis here, but here’s just a small portion:

WALLACE: … but the question is, why didn’t you do more, connect the dots and put them out of business?

CLINTON: OK, let’s talk about it. Now, I will answer all those things on the merits, but first I want to talk about the context in which this arises.

I’m being asked this on the Fox network. ABC just had a right- wing conservative run in their little “Pathway to 9/11,” falsely claiming it was based on the 9/11 Commission report, with three things asserted against me directly contradicted by the 9/11 Commission report.

And I think it’s very interesting that all the conservative Republicans, who now say I didn’t do enough, claimed that I was too obsessed with bin Laden. All of President Bush’s neo-cons thought I was too obsessed with bin Laden. They had no meetings on bin Laden for nine months after I left office. All the right-wingers who now say I didn’t do enough said I did too much — same people.

They were all trying to get me to withdraw from Somalia in 1993 the next day after we were involved in “Black Hawk down,” and I refused to do it and stayed six months and had an orderly transfer to the United Nations.

OK, now let’s look at all the criticisms: Black Hawk down, Somalia. There is not a living soul in the world who thought that Osama bin Laden had anything to do with Black Hawk down or was paying any attention to it or even knew Al Qaida was a growing concern in October of ‘93.

WALLACE: I understand, and I…

CLINTON: No, wait. No, wait. Don’t tell me this — you asked me why didn’t I do more to bin Laden. There was not a living soul. All the people who now criticize me wanted to leave the next day.

You brought this up, so you’ll get an answer, but you can’t…

WALLACE: I’m perfectly happy to.

At about 13:40 minutes into the video, you’ll see a close-up of Clinton’s hands, and they are shaking hard. Another sign he’s lost control. There were a couple of other things I noticed that struck me as strange. Bill Clinton said he has never criticized Bush (GW) before this interview, but I seem to remember a few instances when he has. And secondly, Clinton talks about how he’d ordered the CIA to take UBL out, he’d ordered other forces to take him out, and this got me to thinking: What would the Democrats do if even today they found out Pres. Bush had ordered an assassination squad to go after UBL? The MSM would have a FIELD day, and McCain would also join the club of the unhinged over that one. Oh, no, we have to treat these guys according to the Geneva Conventions, and a hit-squad is way out of the question! Ah, the hypocricy abounds.

He also brings up BlackHawk Down, which is an event that in every way imaginable angers me about Clinton’s inactions. I’m speaking from having listened to a very long talk given by one of the people who were there at the time; in fact, Tom Sizemore portrayed him in the movie. So don’t say I’m pulling stuff out of the air - Lt. Col. Brian McKnight was there, and he knows who gave the orders and for what. You might also want to be on the lookout for a book by him, because at this forum, he said now that he’s no longer with the government, he’s ready to tell all. Clinton has more unhinged days to look forward to, for sure.

Lastly, why did his wardrobe person put him in high-waters? The last thing I wanted to see was his bare shins and black socks.

Watch Clinton get unhinged here.

There is a TON of coverage on this including (but not limited to) HotAir (TONS of updates), Michelle Malkin, BigDog, Webloggin, Newsbusters, Cao’s Blog, Rusty at MyPetJawa, Euphoric Reality, JosCafe, and Stop the ACLU. Also Ace has a great roundup.

I agree with Jane Hall from Fox News Watch yesterday, when she refers to the recently released picture of a tight group of Taliban attending a funeral, and our bureaucracy wouldn’t allow us to take them out. Jane said “it makes us look dumb.” I concur.

A bit later on, Jim Pinkerton loses his conservative mind momentarily and brings up the Geneva Convention. You know, that pesky little treaty of which the Taliban nor Al Qaeda are a part? Well, Cal Thomas set Jim straight on this one.

Cal: I don’t see any of these beheaders saying, ‘you know, because of the Geneva convention, I’m going to cut off fewer heads.’ I don’t think there’s a relationship (between this missed opportunity and the Geneva Convention).

Jim: Under the Geneva Convention, if you cut off someone’s head you can be punished.

Cal: Pshhh…

Jim: If you eliminate the Geneva Convention, then how can you punish someone?

Cal: This picture we just saw is the perfect opportunity to punish them and we didn’t!

Bravo Cal! I was actually surprised by Jim’s response in this manner, but at least even liberal Jane came to balance on this one. We did look dumb. And weak. And that’s very dangerous for all of us.

Watch the video here.