Our country is utterly unprepared in the event of an attack by WMD, biochemical weapons, nuclear weapons, etc. Peggy Noonan's column is a must-read.
She mentions the "failure of imagination" that the government fell victim to in the pre-9/11 mindset. Now, nearly nine years later, enough time has passed that we have forgotten what is was like in those days, to be completely unprepared and taken off guard by something beyond our imagination. But if the Taliban can kill a seven year old, there is all sorts of evil in their minds that could translate into something even far worse than 9/11. The election of Barack Obama didn't change the minds of the Taliban and al Qaeda; it only weakened our resolve, apparently.
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