Well, we've done it again. We've made it safely through another high alert weekend, with official government warnings about credible terrorist threats. The highest ranking military officers in the world's most powerful armed-forces (ours) are candidly admitting on national TV that they have no way to really defend against a suicidally-committed homicide-bomber. It seems that all our standing armies, all our military hardware, all our advanced weapon's systems cannot protect us from a single-minded, monomaniacal madman or madwoman.

I don't know about you, but I feel vulnerable. The United States of America is both hugely powerful, yet profoundly powerless in this war on terrorism. Most generations alive today don't remember the terrible threat to national security not to mention life and l…