The Panty Bomber or Fruit of Kaboom!

The attempted bombing of a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day and the Obama administrations initial response to that incident proves among other things that the President is either incapable or unwilling to recognize terrorism as the national security threat that it is.
Early on in his administration (March 23, 2009) the president ordered the phrase "war on terror" be eliminated. It was replaced with the softer, gentler phrase, "man caused disaster"
The president needs a twelve-step program for terrorism. One of the first steps in any good twelve-step program is to recognize you’ve got a problem. (If you’ve never gone through a twelve-step program and if you’re a member of the locally predominant religious faith, then think the "five Rs of repentance" or however many Rs of repentance there are.) Either way you’ve got to recognize you have a problem.
The Fort Hood shootings were a terrorist attack. All signs point to the fact that Fort Hood was a terrorist attack. The administration insisted for several days that it was a case of one lone soldier going berserk and turning on those around him. The administration has dug in their heals about their theory of the attack by refusing to award Purple Hearts to the soldiers wounded at Fort Hood.
Isn’t it ironic that the same Imam, Anwar al-Awlaki, who recruited the Northwest Airlines Panty Bomber (the bomb was smuggled on board in the guy’s underwear) and arranged for his training in Yemen was "suspected" Fort Hood terrorist Major Nadal Hasan’s Imam in Washington DC.
And speaking of terrorist training, what total nincompoop in the Bush Administration recommended the release of two Guantanamo detainees for art therapy in Saudi Arabia. If you haven’t heard, the Panty Bomber was trained by two former residents of Guantanamo, released in 2007 and sent to Saudi Arabia for art therapy and rehabilitation.
The administration’s initial solution to the type of threat posed by the Panty Bomber was to keep you and me in our seats for the last hour of every flight, not allow us to use the restroom or have anything in our laps. That bit of stupidity was done away with almost immediately. Their next step was to order 150 of the full body scanners that would expose, well, expose everything.
An article in the UK Independent, quoting sources in Britain’s Home Office states that the full body scanners would not have detected the Panty Bomber’s explosives.
The 911 Commission stated that, ‘al qaeda was at war with us before we were at war with them.’ The Obama Administartion, when they do address terrorism, is treating terror as a criminal matter, not the war that it is and all of us will be the losers for it.