You might expect the lead prosecutor against the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing to tout the criminal justice system as the premier strategy to fight terrorism. If so, you're wrong.

It is precisely because of Andy McCarthy's experience in that capacity that he understands -- in a way others can't -- the crippling limitations of law enforcement and criminal prosecutions in combating global terrorism.

Though he led the Justice Department prosecution team that convicted Omar Abdel Rahman, the 'Blind Sheik,' McCarthy is painfully aware that 'as a class, baby-boom attorneys know nothing of war. Prosecutors included.' Even this successful effort left way too many militants in place and encouraged the idea that they could attack us with impunity.

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