On underwear bombs and the juxtaposition of freedom and feardom

So a guy gets on a plane in Lagos - paying cash and not checking any bags... oh and he's on a terror watchlist - and almost blows up a plane over Detroit.

Are we all on board with this so far?

He tries to set off the bomb over Detroit but the detonator malfunctions and all he manages to do is burn his penis off.

Still good? Here it is as a math problem:

Foreign embarkation + blatantly suspicious behavior + terrorist watch list = X (solve for X)

This guy getting on the plane is the equivalent of the Salahis getting into the White House. People fucked up.

And because of this, there is a whole host of other restrictions being put (sloppily) into place: no standing in the last hour of flight, no GPS-capable devices allowed, no blankets allowed, don't take a long time in the crapper (have they eaten their own food?).

The goal of terrorism isn't death, but fear. And so in that aspect, Undie-Bomber succeeded. We've allowed ourselves to get our collective shit scrambled. Again. While the President reminds us that: "We will never give in to fear". Right.

Undie-Bomber was from London and flew to Lagos to board the plane. Are we seeing the REAL problem here? The real problem is not domestic security, but security in third-world airports. Like Lagos. Where you can buy/bluff your way onto an airplane.

So if the problem is in Lagos, why are we concentrating on Charlotte? Of course I'm asking this is a government that invaded one nation who didn't have anything to do with 9/11 (Iraq) and just re-invaded another 8 years after they ceased to be a real threat to us (Afghanistan).

Oh, and Erroll Southers, former FBI and the president's pick to run the TSA, still isn't on the job because Republican Senator Jim DeMint is blocking his appointment. Over union issues.

Bet'cha a million dollars that CNN won't raise THAT particular issue.