Ivory Tower Terror.

• Author: Taylor, Jeff A.
• Position: Preventive measures and regulations by National Commission on Terrorism - Brief Article

Can America be kept safe from college students who switch majors? According to the National Commission on Terrorism, it's a danger that needs to be addressed. Otherwise, foreign students could shift from such evidently innocuous fields as English literature to physics or chemistry, disciplines that, one gathers, might teach them to make bombs.

Congress set up the terrorism commission two years ago, after an Islamic faction bombed U.S. embassies in Africa. Interestingly, the terrorists responsible for those bombings don't seem to have studied in the United States.

The panel, made up of private security experts and former government officials, also wants the Pentagon, as opposed to civilian agencies, to take the lead in responding to major terrorist attacks on American...