Hey, they're busy!

Over at the Left Coaster, Steve Soto picks up an item I mentioned in passing earlier. Steve gives the disparity between the search for Bin Laden and Saddam's assets and the enforcement of the Cuban embargo a bit more play than I do. Understandable, of course. After all, I'm close enough to the Canadian border to jump in the car anytime the urge for fine Cuban tobacco is overwhelming, while Steve's way down there in the lower left.

It's a point worth emphasizing, though, and he asks questions worth asking.

"Four agents?" he wonders. "More than two and a half years after 9/11? Who deserves more investigation here: the Bin Laden-Saudi royal family connection, or money being sent to Cuba by family members and businesses?"

A little sympathy for those federal agents may be in order, though. I mean, there are only so many of them, and they're busy guys, lately, according to this blurb from Altercation.

"The White House is so desperate to protect its drug industry backers, it has deployed federal agents to search and intimidate low-income seniors traveling to Canada in order to fill their prescriptions."

I mean, between Cuban cigars and Canadian prescriptions, who's got time for the war on terror?