Juan Williams seems to think that because Obama admitted that there was a ‘systemic failure’ in our inability to process and utilize information on the underwear bomber, that it’s something we can fix, perhaps logistically. In other words someone dropped the ball and we need to find out where the information stopped and fix it. But according to Thiessen that’s not the real problem. The point that Thiessen is making is that there is a fundamental philosophical problem in Obama’s approach to the war on terror and more specifically the capturing and handling of terrorists. If we don’t capture terrorists continually and interrogate them accordingly, then we won’t know if an attack is imminent. And this is the major failure of the underwear bomber, that we didn’t know he was coming. It’s gross negligence and if the attack had succeeded, then blood would have been on Obama’s hands. I know that’s tough language but there is a reason that the Bush administration kept us safe. The Obama administration has the tools but they refuse to use them.
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