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This article is absolutely spot-on! These attacks represented a totally new level of sophistication and coordination, and I hope the major cities in the U.S. take note, as well as the FBI, DHS, and DoD (who are probably already in India doing their analysis).

You gotta be kidding me. They were ready to run Bush out of office for just wiretapping terrorists. People want their government to keep them safe- but they don't want to pay for it or be inconvenienced. There really isn't any way to protect a school or hospital or hotel from a group of armed terrorists. But if and when it happens, you better believe they'll blame whoever is the mayor or police chief or President (well, ok, they won't blame Obama). The only solution (and it certainly offers no guarantees) is exactly what Bush is doing right now- wiretaps, black site prisons and Gitmo. But the MSM will condemn any politician who does that and the Obama people are salivating at the thought of prosecuting Bush administration and CIA officials for their War on Terror "abuses". As the recent election proves, people have short memories when it comes to terrorism.

"well as the FBI, DHS, and DoD (who are probably already in India doing their analysis)."

Oh goodie.

Mark Styen...
Many of us, including the incoming Obama administration, look at this as a law-enforcement matter. Mumbai is a crime scene, so let's surround the perimeter with yellow police tape, send in the forensics squad, and then wait for the D.A. to file charges.

Our SpecOp guys, especially Delta and Seal Team 6, do more than you think in way of preparation for this type of stuff. And although I generally detest the proliferation of SWAT teams, this is precisely the mission for which John Nelson and Daryl Gates enviosned them during the early 1970s when he invented the concept, instead being misused during the so-called “War on Drugs” and for raiding private properties, i.e. Waco and Ruby Ridge.