The situation in Mumbai could not hit home more than with Global Traveler readers and staff. Just over a year ago, Kim Krol was in Mumbai on a business trip, and Lisa Matte was just there recently as well. Fifteen percent of GT readers travel to India frequently every year. I travel all over the world, and, yes, I frequent the same types of properties that were the target of the cowardly terrorists. I certainly would have been one of those in the restaurant at the Taj or the Oberoi if I had been in Mumbai at the time. I entertain at hotel restaurants around the world. Mumbai, to Global Traveler, is as near as New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. An event like this could happen in any one of these cities as well. As I did after 9/11, I encourage travelers to get back in the air and to prove to these bastards that they cannot stop us. Of course, security measures had to be addressed post-9/11 in the U.S. Equally so, India’s security measures will have to be evaluated and addressed. This is also an opportunity for the cities of the world, from Beijing to San Francisco, to evaluate their strengths and weaknesses in such attacks or other scenarios. Maybe we have learned that there are still significant issues in the world; maybe some of this has been overlooked in the last couple of months. The one change we do not want to see is a change in national security. Already we are becoming complacent and arrogant. The TSA  has to produce warm and fuzzy videos explaining particular security measures, from the liquids ban to removing our shoes, to show at major airports. People have been becoming testy going through security recently and have to be reminded why these measures are in place. Some people even put security behind the fear of missing their flight – these are the roadblocks facing the TSA in the U.S. Have we all forgotten 9/11, Richard Reid and the liquids threat? To our good friends in India, and specifically in Mumbai, you have a proud lineage of democracy that some people would like to see collapse. It will not happen if you do not let it happen. The rest of the respectable world will not let it happen, either. Our prayers and thoughts go to you. I am thankful that we have an ally like India, and I will continue to encourage Americans to travel to India and Mumbai. -Fran Gallagher, publisher and CEO