FRONT PAGE: "U.S. Plans Attack and Defense in Web Warfare," by David E. Sanger, John Markoff and Thom Shanker, New York Times, 28 April 2009.

LEADERS: "Cyberwar: Battle is joined: A behind-the-scenes conflict appears to be under way--but not the sort you might think," The Economist, 25 April 2009.

CANYOUBELIEVE IT! America's really going to play for cyberwar--both defense AND offense.

Wow. I never could have imagined we'd reach this day.

As The Economist points out (and as I have argued repeatedly), we're being given the royal scare treatment thanks to this current intra-USG scrum on cybersecurity--as in, who controls and thus who gets funded.

Naturally, I am beyond fear.

Bring on the Pearl Harbors! Living in a horizontal state (federal), we Americans just love to obsess over shots to the head, even though it's the horizontal scenarios (like this economic situation) that always give us more trouble.