Refreshingly, the President took responsibility for the multiple intelligence community failures behind the underwear bomber’s attempted terrorist attack.
Unchangingly, the President seems to be making a distinction between accountability, which he accepts, and blame, which he does not wish to dole out. It’s a distinction without a difference when it comes to actual policy.
These failures were clearly firing offenses, or at the very least required a degree of professional integrity that might offer resignations if you happened to be the head of the CIA or Homeland Security.
Instead, there will be lots of scrambling, lots of money wasted on air marshals and body scanning machines, and the odds of a similar attack being successful will be the same: about 11 billion to one.
The President seems to be a grown up, but he’s allowing the frightened children of an immature nation to make policy, so it’s difficult to see what lessons were learned in this fiasco.
Gorilla says: “Bring on the responsibility and bring me the heads on sticks!”
