To pose a question ...

I was thinking.

O'Reilly went on tonight with his version of what I wrote yesterday, the Tiller killing coverage verses the assassination of Private Long. And in the process of discussing the media coverage a picture of Private Long was shown ... in his military uniform and beret. And that got me thinking ...

Abdulhakim Muhammad, formerly Carlos Bledsoe of Tennessee, traveled to Yemen and studied with (& by all accounts "joined") people that by any definition are the sworn enemy of America. People with whom we are currently engaging in a hot war in both Afghanistan & Iraq. In other words regardless of our Congress's unwillingness to "declare war", we still find ourselves in a state of war with the people "Abdul" aligned with and acted on behalf of. Which means that he is a member of the opposition forces with whom we are warring ... right? If you find all of that reasonable as a premise, here is my question: when was the last time an active duty US soldier was killed by a war time enemy of the United Sates, within the United Sates?

Pearl Harbor? Let us further refine it ... within the Continental United States?

The Civil War?

How about an American citizen, a traitor, guilty of an act of treason, whom aligned with enemy forces & then killed a US soldier on continental US soil?

The Revolution?

Arguably the first wartime casualty of a US soldier within the continental United States in at least 144 years, and it gets less coverage then whether or not the American Idol runner up is gay.

I find that a rather pathetic indictment of the self ascribed "4th branch of government."