The Persistent Threat

Over the past few weeks, those of us in New York have had persistent reminders that the threat of terrorist attacks remains real and visceral.

Just last week, the accidental plane crash in Manhattan that took the life of Cory Lidle, a pitcher for the New York Yankees baseball team, had been immediately greeted with suspicions that it was another terrorist attack. Those concerns evaporated as it became clear that the crash was accidental and not the work of terrorists. However, the fact that so