We spoke to veteran top security and intelligence experts who, in the Sixties and Seventies, weren't content with knee-jerk reactions when terrorists took the initiative, striking where, when and how they liked. These were the men who set out to punish the slayers of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, who thwarted the greatest terrorist menace to face any country, the building of an Iraqi nuclear bomb in 1981, clearly aimed at Israel. In the US and Israel too the intelligence services are creaking along like ox-wagons in the jet age. They are stuck in a rut of inertia. Small, secretive organizations must be constructed using past and current experts on terrorism, people who don't necessarily belong to the present establishment.
Speed is of the essence, since the threat of nuclear, chemical and biological terrorism looms.
We cannot rely on 'static' defense. To do so, they must invest in modern technology. The aim must be to strike at Hizbullah, Hamas, and their Iranian masters in Syria and Libya, and at the Iranian mother snakes in their nest, instead of fooling around chasing after the vipers they spawn after they have struck. They must be wiped out one by one with innovation and daring, as in the past. Again, there must be close cooperation between the US and Israel.