Reports today of a bomb found in Times Square - that happily did not detonate.
It's no longer "over there" -- where busy marketplaces are bombing targets, and people must look over their shoulders as they go about their daily business.
We are now the target, as well. How can we create a safer society for our children?
There is (sadly) political hay to be made. The calls for Homeland Security to watch everyone even more closely. To avoid another action like the fall of the World Trade Center towers. To become even more a police state.
Is there another choice? Were we going to be the focus of the terrorists seeking headlines - even had we not invaded Afghanistan and Iraq?