...In short, six years of quiet at home since 9/11 have fooled some into thinking that terrorists pose little danger here - or that we may be doing far too much rather than too little to stop such killers. No matter that this past week a jihadist plot to destroy U.S. facilities in Germany was thwarted.
Others make the mistake of endlessly re-fighting the past six years - who let al-Qaida grow?; who "lost" Osama bin Laden?; who fouled up postwar Iraq? - instead of concentrating on the storm ahead.
Before 2001, the excuse for American complacence and in-fighting was naïveté. But what will be the reason for the next successful strike against us by the jihadists?
More naïveté - or is it simple hubris?
My guess is that it's a sense of total, abject resignation -- and we can thank the Bush administration for this one.
A government that sends 130,000+ troops halfway around the world to wage a so-called "war on terror" -- while at the same time calling for an unfettered invasion of this country across our southern border -- clearly has something other than the safety and security of its citizenry in mind.