c. One year strikes me as too soon to assess anything and to pat on anyone's back. One year after 9/11 (ok, 14 months but the work was being publicly done with

c. One year strikes me as too soon to assess anything and to pat on anyone's back. One year after 9/11 (ok, 14 months but the work was being publicly done within a year) - we had Homeland security, PATRIOT Act, a war, and noise about another war. Sales of duct tape went through the roof (along with plastic tarps, some sort of voodoo chem weapon protection scheme), new warrantless wire taps everywhere, the NSA box to read all internet traffic, and so on. So yes, a year is plenty of time to compare responses in the first year.