Sounds of anger and signs of action are following the failed attempt to blow up a U.S. jetliner on Christmas Day. We are lucky it is an averted disaster focusing our attention, but our national security must depend on more than luck.
We need immediate changes in policy and practice — in the way people think and make decisions at all agencies and in their collaborations with the private sector — to bring about a virtual reorganization of government to effectively meet the challenge of those who will strike anytime and anywhere.
