"Atrocity and terror are not political weapons," declared the grouchy Harrison Ford, "and to those who would use them, their day is over." This was early second term Bill Clinton, before the Monica Lewinsky looniness, and the presidency still appeared virile, experimental, an exercise in state-to-state power when dealing with the failed states of the former Soviet empire.  Mid-90s, while this was being constructed out of a 1995 screenplay pitch, the interpretation was that terrorism was a policing theme, that the 1993 World Trade Tower attack had been a one-off by nut cases, that Israel's battle with Arafat launched terror was not a threat to the homeland, and that the notion of a terror strike on the US air fleet was Hollywood bunkum exaggeration.  What a blood simple version of threat analysis for Harrison Ford to charge into with Vice President Glenn Close and a handsome terror op in Gary Oldham.  Within the next year there was the East Africa embassies attack, August 1998, and the cruise missile counter-attacks into Afghanistan terror camps that missed Bin Laden by hours, but there was still no grand theme of warfare.  Though there had been the capture of Ramzi Yousef in January 1995, no one much had the details of the scale of the Bojinka plot against airliners.  No one much had Al Qaeda's outlines at all.  The International Front for Combatting the Crusaders and Jews was still on a jihadist wish-list.  POTUS Clinton learned the hard way with the Cole in October 2000; then POTUS Bush learned the hard way with 9-11-01.  Will POTUS Obama learn the hard way with Hasan and 12-25-09?