Boy oh boy, does the panel never disappoint. Especially when Juan is on hand, and Brit Hume is right there to reel him in. Bill Kristol is usually not far behind Brit, but Headmaster Hume usually has the upper hand on the schooling of Juan.

I’ll let the video and partial transcript speak for themselves. You all know the Brit/Juan drill by now, so carry on! The talk is of how we’re doing on the war on terror.

WALLACE: And are we winning?

KRISTOL: Yes, I think we’re winning. But we would win more thoroughly and more completely if we were in less denial about the fact that it’s a global war; and that if Iraq’s the central front, we should do everything it takes to win there, not try to do it on the cheap.

And if Iran is now, which I think it is, the center of gravity in the next stage of this global war, then we need to do everything it takes to deny that jihadist regime a nuclear weapon.

So I think we’re winning, but we could do a little better.

JUAN WILLIAMS, NPR: I don’t understand what you just said, because it seems to me that that’s where Al Qaida was when we were attacked on 9/11, and I think the central job was to go after Al Qaida. And today, as we look back, what we see is that most Americans think that, in fact, terrorists worldwide have about the same ability to attack us as they did on 9/11.

And it’s just a different type of structure. Al Qaida seems to have been weakened, although they have some resurgence lately, in Afghanistan. But what we’re seeing is that there’s this terrorist network all over the world, and that you have this increased U.S. military presence throughout the world.

And most Americans think that’s one of the sources for generating anti-American sentiment that leads to the creation of terrorists, the recruiting of terrorists. That’s not good for the U.S.

And if you ask most Americans, they say let’s decrease that military presence, that you want to increase; they say let’s decrease dependence on oil, which feeds some of these regimes that support terrorists around the world; let’s do a better job of dealing with things like prisoners, black sites in Guantanamo Bay and like, because what that does is anger our allies and make it more difficult for our allies to work with us in this war on terror.

HUME: There’s a very interesting new book out called, “The Looming Tower”…

WALLACE: I’m reading that right now.

HUME: … by Lawrence Wright, who makes, I think persuasively, the argument that after the initial conflict in Afghanistan, and after Tora Bora indeed, even though Osama and key lieutenants escaped, that Al Qaida was essentially dead, finished, washed up as a major force in the world terror movement.

And he goes on to argue that the war in Iraq has given what he would call the progeny of Al Qaida new life, but that Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaida has essentially been weakened to the point of not being very important anymore.

And I think that’s probably true. I think what we learn as we go here is that this is more a terror movement than it is a network, and that where you can defeat or destroy one terror operation — to wit, bin Laden’s Al Qaida in and around Afghanistan — that others will form and emerge to take its place.

I’m struck to hear Juan and others say, as they do, that we need to be focusing all our energies on Al Qaida. Well, who’s been the big troublemaker more recently? Well, you look in the Middle East; it’s Hezbollah who’s been tremendously important. Hezbollah is the sworn enemy of the United States, funded by Iran.

Do we then chase around the mountains of Afghanistan in an effort to catch one or two or three Al Qaida leaders now weakened, or do we go after Hezbollah?

Now, those are the kinds of questions, it seems to me, you need to ask. And simply talking endlessly about Osama bin Laden being on the loose or, as I think it’s more likely, on the lam, it seems to me, goes nowhere.

Does it surprise you that Juan never understands what any of them are talking about. He’s on a different intellectual plane, and it’s probably a good thing for Brit’s and Bill’s gene pool that those two planes don’t mix.

Watch Juan go down the path of lunacy here.