Are we safer now than we were on Sept. 10, 2001? On the eve of the most devastating terrorist attack on the United States we weren’t safe at all, but we thought we were. The same remains true today. It took almost 10 years to get Osama bin Laden, but we did. Does that mean that al Qaeda and its terrorist ilk are no longer a threat?

We’ve spend thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars in Iraq and Afghanistan and, although Saddam Hussein is dead and the Taliban driven from Kabul, does that mean neither nation will again become a base for terrorism?