So says the Obama administration’s Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano.  This, of course, after she previously said that the system worked just fine.  Kind of a variation on the old John Kerry “It worked before it didn’t work” type of logic.

The newly exposed shortcomings in airline security became woefully apparent on Christmas Day when a Nigerian terrorist was allowed to board a plane bound for the United States carrying an explosive mixture concealed on his person and attempted to blow up himself and the passenger filled airliner as it landed in Detroit.  This even though his name was on at least some of the “no fly” warning lists available to both airlines and foreign security forces.  

Airlines and TSA inspectors are now redoubling their efforts at domestic airports in a show of increased security.  Airlines have taken to forcing their passengers to remain in their seats for the final hour of some flights and are not allowing anyone access to their carryon luggage during that time. TSA inspectors are increasing inspection of carryon bags as well as the passengers themselves.   The problem is, of course, this is all just for show.  These new measures will make getting through the airport more time consuming, boarding the plane more frustrating and flying on one even more inconvenient, but they will do absolutely nothing to improve security.  That’s because the problem is not with the inspection process but rather with the security administration management and the incredibly naïve, passive mindset of the Obama administration.

This neophyte community activist qua president still does not believe, or at least does not understand, that there are actually people whose only goal in life is to kill Americans.  While Obama vowed this past week to “do everything that we can to keep America safe” it took him nine months before he even nominated anyone to head up the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) or the Customs and Border Protection Agency.  Both positions remain vacant almost a year into his presidency because neither of these nominations have even been scheduled for review hearings by Congress.  Both the House and Senate have been so completely consumed and single focused on ramming through the ObamaCare healthcare debacle that they have had time for nothing else.  Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead

Much like the Fort Hood tragedy, the Obama administration is now even questioning whether this was indeed an act of terrorism in the broad sense or just the act of a lone misfit.  Further complicating their refusal to accept reality is the fact that an Al Qaeda spinoff group in Yemen is claiming responsibility for the attempted bombing.  This terrorist group harbored in Yemen is led by two jihadists that were released from the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility and sent to Saudi Arabia to be rehabilitated.  They apparently didn’t take well to the rehabilitation and have gone back to doing what got them sent to Guantanamo in the first place.  Furthermore the unsuccessful bomber onboard the Northwest Airlines flight has been in communication with the same Imam as the Fort Hood shooter.

I have no doubt that the next explanation for these terrorist acts will be to blame the Bush administration for locking up these poor misunderstood Muslims in the first place.

All I know is that this is the second major act of Muslim terrorism carried out on American soil within the last three months under the administration of a president who said he would resolve these issues through dialog and opening the lines of communication.  If Obama was looking for a response to his impassioned plea to Muslims I think it’s safe to say he got it.  Could it be that Dick Cheney, the whipping boy of the Democrat Party, knows what the hell he’s talking about?

I wonder if ObamaCare covers getting blown up on an airplane?