It is not enough effort to prevent this threat said Daniel Goure

Five years after the World Trade Center suicide attacks, the Americans are more than 22 to be "very worried" confronting the terrorist threat, against 39 in the fall of 2001, according to a CBS poll - "new york times" published last Thursday. Even if they were not attacked on their soil since September 11 famous, are the United States, so far from an attack Not, meet experts, pointing the finger at the experimentation of the new Department of Homeland Security and intelligence failures.

While progress has been made since the 2001 attacks, welcomed some of them. "We are better protected, estimates, for example, Daniel Goure, an expert at the Lexington Institute, a"think tank"dedicated to security issues. We have a better awareness of the risks, our procedures to put in place to optimize our intelligence services and searches at airports have some effectiveness. "Even USVisit for review of the status of visitors at the entrance of ports and airports is far from being useless, according to him. "The Bush administration has had the courage to reaffirm that we are at war, to defend its wiretapping program," says Daniel Goure. Some tasks were properly streamlined, including border control, now capped by a Department of Homeland Security, Department of Homeland Security.

Better define priorities

However, the weaknesses of the country remain important. "A Department must have existed at least ten years before becoming effective, said Daniel Goure. Homeland Security, headed by Michael Chertoff, has not yet defined its priorities. "Veronique de Rugy, which addresses these issues at the American Enterprise Institute, is much more severe. "The annual budget of approximately $ 35 billion, a large portion is spent completely ineffectual measures, which are political postures, considers". Decontamination outfits, whose usefulness is to prove cost 26 billion. Similarly, are spent 6 billion per year to pick up 30,000 lighters and Clippers to airline passengers, while the pilots are now isolated with a protected door and 11 September attack can no longer occur. "It would take to Véronique Rugy, to multiply initiatives such as the one aimed at rooting out explosives in the cargo in the ports where they leave. These gaps in the definition of priorities are added management problems: according to a report of a bipartisan Committee of the Congress, contracts with a value of more than 34 billion dollars spent by the Department, in addition, billed.

Most importantly, in addition to this Department, the United States, even if they have achieved results in the fight against Al-Qaida, have no intelligence services they need to protect themselves. The CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) and the new Department her hair all the intelligence services "is experiencing a deep crisis", according to Daniel Goure: "They are in particular not translators and analysts necessary."

These weaknesses are that a weapon of destruction massive, nuclear or chemical attack, cannot be excluded. "It is not enough effort to prevent this threat", said Daniel Goure. But in this area, the solutions are still less easy to find, recognize. "That means enough". What can we do Invade the Iran