“DON’T GET COCKY!” Han Solo’s advice is worth remembering in the wake of Saddam’s capture, especially in light of this report from U.S. News on the Pentagon’s turf wars and how they’re slowing intelligence and counterterrorism efforts. Excerpt:

“It’s not that al Qaeda has ways of hitting us we can’t understand. It’s that they operate in ways we weren’t structured to deal with,” says Robert Andrews, the Pentagon’s top civilian in charge of special operations until July 2002. “Their decision loop is a lot smaller than ours.”

That means that ours needs to be smaller, doesn’t it?