We Should Have Seen It Coming

It sounds painfully appropriate today during this frightening fiscal crisis, when the whole country from big-time executives to Main Street investors is looking back at the recent past, wondering why people were not more responsible and careful, why they did not see the meltdown coming. Two years after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, a Congressional committee described how we had failed to be alert and missed signals of impending doom. People of all faiths and no faith will be reaching out to one another, renewing friendships, bonding with family, sharing blessings and trying to help the poor and suffering.