The events of September 11, 2001, revealed something more than evil. The Federal government's analysis of the attacks provided a long list of intelligence failures, bungled communication and interagency squabbling that opened the door to bin Laden's lackeys. Not since 1941 had this Nation's soul been hurt so deeply. But unlike Pearl Harbor, these were attacks on innocent civilians, designed to sow terror, and to take peace from the world. Our vocabularies now included words like al-Qaeda, Taliban and jihad. In just a few hours of a single day, our lives were changed forever. When a massive...