I'd give the (snicker) International Institute for Strategic Studies a little more credibility if they offered a single original thought, but if there's one here it isn't obvious. Al Qaeda has reconstituted itself and is as capable as it used to be...based on what evidence? If anything the ferocity and the frequency of their attacks appears to have diminished. Global warming the equivalent of a nuclear war? But a nuclear war is predicted to cause global cooling - anyone remember the horrendous "nuclear winter" that such "experts" predicted?
Spare us from "think tanks." Wisdom isn't necessarily accumulative but stupidity is.
Ron Paul has said it is easier to hit Americans in Iraq than it is here. And that mall security is doing a better job than our troops.
Except there was a mall shooing by a muslim in Utah and there was a plot (in Chicago?). Were these stopped by mall cops?