Under the Bush administration we have exactly 0 convictions for terrorist activity related to 9-11. The one case we've actually managed to bring to trial is a giant embarrassment. We may be breaking eggs, but there's no cake in sight.

My better idea - competence from our leaders and security agencies.

Western Europe hasn't had an attack at the 9-11 level since WWII. Maybe we should be learning something from them, hm?