"Terrorists will strike America again"

In an article in the Los Angeles Times on the 19th of January 2010, Gregory F. Treverton, associated with the Center for Asymmetric Threat Studies (CATS) at the Swedish National Defence College, states that:

"The Obama administration's mea culpa over the failure to prevent the attempted bombing of a U.S. airliner bound for Detroit on Christmas Day is understandable but misses the point. Yes, the United States can do better at catching would-be attackers; that will always be the case. But the truth is that there is no absolute security -- short of conceding victory to the terrorists by making it impossible for foreigners to visit the U.S., hellish for Americans to fly and difficult for all to live normal lives."

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