RealClearPolitics: After the Next Attack...

July 05, 2007
After The Next Atttack
By David Ignatius

How would America react to a future terrorist attack? Would the country come together to combat its adversaries, or would it pull further apart?

Perhaps we will never have to confront the question, you say. Perhaps our good luck will hold, or our intelligence will detect all the plots and plotters, or the terrorists will conclude that America is so divided anyway, why do anything that might unite the country. Maybe things will turn out that way, but a prudent person wouldn't bet on it.

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