Interesting and possible pespective.
The thing that smells like war to me is the whole anthrax thing. Dashel was a specific target and yet he has never once publicly chastized the FBI for not announcing who was responsible for trying to kill him. He would have a great soap box to stand on demanding that the FBI perform and deliver the person who tried to kill him. It would be a more effective "Bush and his administration can not do anything right" speech than any of the other similar attacks he has made. Yet he says nothing. That makes me think that the FBI has told him who it was and that for some very real and obvious national security reasons related to a pending major war, he isn't talking publicly about it. I also don't understand why his staff hasn't leaked anything to the press, unless it is so obvious that they shouldn't.
As in zen and music, silence can be an important sound to listen to and learn from.
That is a very pertinent observation!