Steyn of the Times: "9/11 enemies are still hiding in plain sight"

Among today's essential reading is Mark Steyn's weekly column in the Sun-Times. It's his remembrance of the day as well as an admonition to a country hopelessly entrenched in the "squeamish culture of political correctness" which so dangerously prohibits decisive action against the obvious enemy.

Five years on, half America has retreated to the laziest old tropes, filtering the new struggle through the most drearily cobwebbed prisms: All dramatic national events are JFK-type conspiracies, all wars are Vietnam quagmires. Meanwhile, Ramzi Yousef's successors make their ambitions as plain as he did: They want to acquire nuclear technology in order to kill even more of us. And, given that free societies tend naturally toward a Katrina mentality of doing nothing until it happens, one morning we will wake up to another day like the "day that changed everything." Sept. 11 was less "a failure of imagination" than an ability to see that America's enemies were hiding in plain sight.

Be sure to read the whole piece. He never disappoints.