generally an unsafe world. we re doing everything we can on the federal level and the state, and certainly this city, i believe we re doing more than any other city in the world. it costs us about $300 million a year for our counterterrorism efforts. but there s no guarantees. and it concerns us. faisal shahzhad was able to drive into midtown manhattan and park on 45th street, and you know, if it had gone well, it would have caused mayhem. rick: we ve been talking a lot about this foiled plot out in europe. these would have been sort of smaller, coordinated attacks. it seems like the tactics have changed, that the bad guys, rather than trying to pull off some kind of a massive 9/11 type of event are now looking at doing sort of smaller, simultaneous events in various places. that has got to force you and your team to change tactics. how so? to a certain extent, you re right, i think there was a belief in the intelligence community a few years ago that one of the, quote spectacular ev