Election 2006.

Whatever the result of the election tomorrow it will decide precisely zero major issues.

There will be no resolution of the issues of immigration. The Republicans achieved only an anemic (southern) border fence (so far only a legislative reality) and the placement of tens, if not hundreds, of National Guardsmen down on the border where, it appears, the are themselves in need of the armed protection of Border Patrolmen to ensure their safety. God forbid that we should "militarize" the border one iota (that's Italian for smidgin) by actually giving our Guardsmen like, you know, real guns.

A Democrat victory will ensure more of the same of what we've had since the memory of man runneth not to the contrary, viz., de facto quasi-amnesty and dilution of the national sovereignty. A citizen reaction of sorts to the status quo lit a fire under the politicians but it seems unlikely to have much of an effect past this Tuesday.

On Iraq, all that is apparent is that the Democrats are desperate to regain power of any kind so that they can either

• make the Muslim fanatics ecstatic by engineering another American retreat in the face of resistance and an abandonment of that convenient tank and aeroplane park just next to Syria and Iran; or
• blunder about in Iraq in the same conceptual dark closet that Mr. Bush chose to enter so casually -- or to remain in without a tangible goal or improvement in our strategic position.

A Republican victory will not see the lash applied to the Iranians and Syrians, and Saudi Arabia will continue hell bent its efforts to build and fund Wahhabi mosques in the U.S. and convert our criminal class to their goofy but poisonous flavor of Islam.

Life in the U.S. today is like starring in a movie where all the passengers on the train haven't begun to figure out that the engineer died with the throttle stuck on "Open."

The Nation will continue rudderless and clueless. The documentary "Obsession" shows, in the words of Fox News that Americans suffer from "the naïve disbelief that we remain targets of thousands, perhaps millions of radical Muslims around the world." ^[1]

The election might have been about the issues of the goals and tactics of garden-variety fanatic Islam and possible Western countermeasures. Instead we have had pointless and duplicitous hyperventilations about Valerie Plame's (obviously) non-covert status as a CIA officer and the pathetic ass of a Republican Congressman who sent little "billets-doux" to his pages assuming these would remain confidential communications.

Perhaps serious people with the interests of the Nation at heart do concern themselves with such trifles.

But we doubt it.

Obviously, 9/11 was not enough to wake up America to the serious issues that face us. Gradual inundation by illegal immigrants doesn't seem to enrage any substantial segment of the electorate.

Something much worse than 9/11 will be necessary to make American's face reality.

Notes
^[1] "Documentary Portrays Islamic Extremists' Call to Arms Against the Free World ." FoxNews.com, 11/3/06.