With the Keystone Kops quality of the drama that played out on Christmas Day concerning the Nigerian underwear bomber one has to wonder if this was not a deliberate effort by the Al Qaeda leadership to find out how much the Obama Administration, through its appeasement mindset, had degraded the Bush security efforts.  Had the naive terrorist succeeded it would have been a bonus.This young impressionable Muslim could not have made his intentions more obvious had he worn a sign stating: "I am a terrorist, carrying a bomb in my underwear, planning to blow up this plane."In fact he: bought a one way ticket using cash, he had no luggage, did not have a passport, had a Muslim name and was on a watch list.  Not to mention he had been denied a visa to the United Kingdom, the hot bed of radical Islamic activity in Europe.  Any one of these factors should have been enough to prevent his getting on the plane and in the immediate seven years following 9/11 they would...(Read Full Post)