Sept 11, remembrance and reassessment

It is proper for New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to urge people on Tuesday to call the place known as Ground Zero by its new name: The World Trade Center and the National September 11th Memorial and Museum.

It is time for Americans to move on from the tragic attacks on Sept 11, 2001. But it is also time for US policymakers to rethink their strategy which has clearly gone wrong over the past decade.

As top US officials keep saying, the world today is safer than 10 years ago, however, they also admit, as Defense Secretary Leon Panetta did on Tuesday, that the potential for another devastating terrorist attack remains real.