Richard Clarke: "If the next bomb goes off, we must try harder to get Islamofascists to like us."

Richard Clarke, anticipating that the Obama administration’s strategy of relying on luck will fail, tells us what we must do the next time a more successful bomber succeeds.

In the raw aftermath of a successful attack, it will be very hard for an American president to shift the debate in a more productive and honest direction. Imagine if, after a fatal attack, President Obama responded by proposing greater outreach to Muslim communities domestically and around the world, in an effort to undercut radicalization. That is precisely what we and other nations should be doing, but it would undoubtedly be decried as a weak, starry-eyed reaction by our commander in chief, especially after an attack that revealed deficiencies in our counterterrorism system.