If I could offer a lesson, I'd be counter-intuitive. We should have let the federal government try the 9/11 terror sheik in Manhattan. It would have been inconvenient, although not necessarily as inconvenient as the police department led us to believe. But it would have been taking a stand. New Yorkers against the crazy people, most of whom fail. And the one who succeeds is never the one you suspect.
So we should work as hard as we can to protect against the unforeseeable. But in the meantime, we should be brave, and united, and supremely ticked off.
“This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.” ― Euripides, The Phoenician Women
Monday, May 03, 2010
Huffington Post: Lesson of Times Square Bomb Attempt--Try Terror Suspects in Manhattan!
IMHO, this analysis by Dan Collins, NY editor of the Huffington Post, is correct: