‘Without a shot being fired, without even a clear sense of who the attacker is . . .’

“. . . much of the United States could find itself living in post-Katrina New Orleans, but without hope of a rescue anytime soon.”

Stewart Baker, former policy director for the Department of Homeland Security, is one of our foremost experts on counterterrorism policy. His new book, Skating on Stilts: Why We Aren’t Stopping Tomorrow’s Terrorism, is a great resource. I talk to him about it, why he’s alarmed, Janet Napolitano, and our collective 9/11 memory here.