The wake-up call from Flight 253

...Yet US airport security remains obstinately reactive -- focused on intercepting dangerous things, instead of intercepting dangerous people.

by Jeff Jacoby
The Boston Globe
December 30, 2009

AFTER THE SEPT. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, it was widely asserted at the time, nothing would be the same. What Pearl Harbor had been for our parents and grandparents, 9/11 would be for us: a shattering national wake-up call revealing both the gaping holes in America's homeland security and the reality that we were at war with an implacable enemy whose defeat would require years of sacrifice and resolve.

Very Good analysis of the current war situation in America. Read it here