The Three Bubbles of the 1990s

Charlie Rose: I think looking back, I now certainly feel I understand more what the war was about. The terrorism bubble that basically built up over the 1990s said, flying airplanes into the World Trade Center, that's okay. And 9-11 to me was the peak of that bubble. What we learned on 9-11 in a gut way was that that bubble was a fundamental threat to our open society. There is no wall height, no INS agent smart enough, no metal detector efficient enough to protect an open society from people motivated by that bubble. We needed to take out a very big stick and burst that bubble.