If Sept. 11, 2001, was our wake-up call, America is still asleep.

On the week of the 64th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, after reflecting on the gallantry of those who fought and died on Dec. 7, we find ourselves more vulnerable than ever to a new Day of Infamy.

Thomas Keane, the former Republican governor of New Jersey and chair of the 9/11 commission, has been more than blunt:

"We believe that the terrorists will strike again," Keane said in an Associated Press report. "And if they do, and these reforms that might have prevented such an attack have not been implemented, what will our excuse be?"

There will be no excuse.

While President Bush chose to fight the terrorists on their turf (thereby inciting anti-American sentiment and raising the terrorist threat), efforts to safeguard us at home have fallen woefully short.

In a damning report card littered with failing grades, the 9/11 commission chided the administration for a litany of missteps, from failing to establish a national radio channel for first responders, to not making anti-terrorist funding based on actual risk instead of "pork-barrel politics."

The money has been appropriated, but legislators can't agree on how to spend it. The authorization bill is currently hung up in the Senate, where Hawai'i Sen. Daniel K. Inouye said he's not sure what a standard based on "risk assessment" means.

But if that new standard holds, the senator acknowledged, "there would be less" homeland security money for Hawai'i in the coming year. You can blame Congress, but accountability for spending starts at the top.

Aside from money, preparedness also means better intelligence information. Even here, the Bush administration has done little to ensure we will know things when we should. It has centralized and expanded the intelligence bureaucracy, and de-emphasized the most important information sources: foreign intelligence.

"It won't work," said Mel Goodman, who spent 41 years with the CIA as a senior analyst and division chief. "Material is not getting in the hands of the right people and shared."

Instead, Goodman said, the intelligence community is overly influenced by the Pentagon, too militarized and politicized to provide us with analysis that can help us avoid another attack.

It seems the lessons learned by Roosevelt after Pearl Harbor, like creating the need for objective and balanced intelligence, are being unlearned by Bush.

"Roosevelt did a lot of the right things," Goodman said. "Bush didn't."

They are all part of the missteps since 9/11 that, if uncorrected, leave America exposed to a new Day of Infamy.