New at Reason: David Harsanyi on the Failed Times Square Attack

May 5, 2010

Even as investigators were hunting for the perpetrator of the botched "man-caused disaster" in Times Square, our cool homeland security secretary, Janet Napolitano, was reassuring a frazzled nation that the failed bombing appeared to be an isolated incident—a "one-off"—and avoided any mention of terrorism. But as David Harsanyi writes, it turns out we are dealing with terrorism. So why aren't we engaging in one of those frank discussions the president always is pretending to have with the American people? How can we deal with a problem if we're not even allowed to talk about it honestly?

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