Of Mafiosi and Mullahs

by Andy McCarthy
National Review Online
September 11, 2011

https://www.legal-project.org/1655/of-mafiosi-and-mullahs

Excerpt:

This was supposed to be a reflection on 9/11 and what we've learned in the decade since — what we've done right, what we've done wrong. It would be foolish, though, to waste time retracing our steps when the lesson is simple and the threat that we will unlearn it is immediate and concrete. What we've learned is that the only protection from jihadist terror lies in good intelligence. And what we're seeing is an attempt to re-establish pre-9/11 roadblocks to intelligence-gathering in the very place where, as 9/11 painfully proved, the threat to us is most profound.

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