Maureen Dowd talks about an event sponsored by the Heritage Foundation. Event title "'24" and America's Image in Fighting Terrorism: Fact, Ficition or Does it Matter?" 24 is a popular TV show featuring agent Jack Bauer, who is played by actor Kiefer Sutherland. here is what Dowd said in her column titled "We Need Chloe!"

"Better to have a panel in praise of Jack Bauer than admit we have no real Jack Bauers to find Osama and his murderous acolytes. Better to pretend that rounding up a bunch of Florida losers whose plan was more "aspirational than operational," as one F.B.I. official put it, is a great blow in the war on terror than to really turn our intelligence agencies and Homeland Security into the relentless, resourceful and fearsome organizations they are in fiction — and should be, given the billions spent on them."