Where is Jack Bauer?

No doubt the Season Premiere of "24" left fans breathless and liberals horrified. Sad state of affairs when a fictional television show does a better job of educating the public on the realities of terrorism than the news media.

Probably to the horror of many of the actors on the show, we conservatives embrace "24" as the well-written cautionary tale that it is, wistfully hoping that there are a fleet of Jack Bauers somewhere in the catacombs of the government's intelligence bureaucracy who are doing those things distasteful but necessary to keep us safe. Please Lord, let that be the case.

Meanwhile, like a Sandra Palmer gone mad, the left is crying foul over the emerging storyline this season -- extremist Jihadi Muslim terrorists armed with five suitcase nukes and an itchy trigger finger.

Bauer, understandably worn out from two years as a guest torture victim of communist China, is pulled back in to save the day once again as he views the Valencia, CA, nuclear attack helplessly. The horrified look on his face is one that many of us recognize as distantly familiar.....something we have seen before.....oh, that's right. We saw that horror on face after face on September 11th.

Can't happen here, liberals? Think again, comrades. It can and we have been blessed that it hasn't thusfar.

Ben Shapiro has an interesting column on Jack Bauer, etc. here. As usual, he provides an excellent analysis.

But if you'd really like to know where Jack Bauer is -- he is long since deceased. He died with demise of the O.S.S. after WWII and the birth of the C.I.A. The Church Commission danced on Bauer's grave in the 70's, insuring that any future Jack Bauers would be handcuffed, stifled and sued out of existence.

Those who naively believe that the unthinkable cannot happen and have little to no understanding of the nature of effective intelligence are whistling past a graveyard, apparently determined to put us all in one.