This year began alarmingly with the terrorist attack on New Orleans’ famed Bourbon Street. The assailant, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a U.S. Army veteran with a troubled past, claimed to have joined the self-proclaimed Islamic State in 2024 and displayed its flag in the truck he used to mow down and kill 14 people and injure some three dozen others. That incident tragically wiped away any illusion that the threat of terrorism has passed and that groups like the Islamic State, which were more active a