Posted by
Laura L. Hollis, JD on Saturday, January 02, 2010 5:23:49 PM
This is pathetic.
OK, I get it - she's nice and approachable. But when the head of Homeland Security can comment on the near-mass murder of 288 people on an airliner last week by saying that "the system worked," and Broder takes to her defense by saying, "Golly gee, she sure was bright-eyed," we're at a new low.
Here's the bottom line. While Napolitano is busy
scouring the nation for Iraq War veterans, church-going pro-lifers, and defenders of the Second Amendment, denying the existence of Islamic terrorists, and referring to terrorist attacks as "man-caused disasters," Islamic terrorists are actually making attempts at terrorist attacks on U.S. soil (or airspace, if you prefer).
Plenty of people are already saying that Napolitano is incompetent and needs to go. But I think they are missing the larger point. "Incompetence" signifies trying to do something, and doing it poorly. But what Napolitano is doing, in fact, is exactly what the Obama administration WANTS her to do.
It's beyond "incompetent" when terrorists from foreign nations are entitled to greater presumptions of innocence than people who hold opposing political views.