Gingrich issues curious comments about terror attacks.(Inside Track)(Newt Gingrich)(Brief article)

On tour promoting Days of Infamy, a new novel about World War II he coauthored with history professor William Forstchen, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich responded during a Q&A session at a New York bookstore with an unusual, even provocative, perspective about why the United States hasn't been hit with more terrorist attacks. "I honestly don't know," he told a questioner, "I would have expected another attack." Not leaving it at that, the ever-loquacious ex-congressman, who once taught history himself, called the absence of additional terrorism "one of the great tragedies of the Bush administration." Continuing, he stated, "The more successful they've been at intercepting and stopping bad guys, the less proof there is that we're in danger." Suggesting that the American public may have been lulled into a false sense of security because no more terrorism has occurred, he concluded, "And it's almost like they [the ...