Six lessons I've learned since the September 11 attack on the WTC

It was in 1973 that veteran Canadian broadcaster Gordon Sinclair noted in his now famous radio editorial: "I can name to you five thousand times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble. Can you name to me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble?"

I hope that within coming months we’ll be able to say yes, in fact, we can. Because it was only last week that we suddenly realised just how complacent we’d become.

America had become complacent about security.

The rest of the world – myself included – had become complacent about America.