We Have Been Warned

Homeland security boss Janet Napolitano is assuring everyone that there were no signs the Nigerian Muslim extremist had any help while attempting to blow up Northwest Flight 253 over Detroit. That's nice, except that he made multiple trips to Yemen, a known terrorist den, and so worried his father with his jihadist views that the father contacted authorities. Why was this guy, who was on a terror watch list, allowed to board that jet?

Don't worry, folks. Janet Napolitano, like our intrepid Nobel-Prize-winner-in-chief, doesn't want us to jump to any conclusions. I expect they will come up with a plan to tighten security against 70-year-old American grandmothers while allowing radicalized followers of the religion of peace to continue sewing explosives into their underwear.

When are we going to get serious? The only reason this plane did not go down is because some brave passengers took matters into their own hands. Let's not wait to change our approach with terrorists until after a passenger jet crashes.

Let's do it now. We have been warned.

Update: Napolitano is now admitting the obvious, that there was a security breakdown after all. Well, that's progress.