[Vision2020] US response to parcel bombs

[Paul Rumelhart]

I wanted to give a thumbs up to our President for not flying off the 
handle in response to the apparently Al-Qaeda linked bombs that were 
intercepted recently.  He's doing the right thing, in my opinion.  
Increasing airport security to target this specific threat, letting his 
security agencies investigate the threat, working with the Yemeni 
government to put pressure on this branch of terrorists, and putting out 
a press release to let the American people know that the threat is being 
taken seriously and to let us know that we can be confident that the 
threat will be handled competently.

More important is what he is not doing.  He is not rattling sabers, not 
haranguing Muslims, not trying to scare the American people into passing 
oppressive legislation, and not trying to rally the American people into 
attacking whatever country he's been Jonesing to attack since he took 
office.

Of course, nobody died, and no buildings came down in such a dramatic 
way.  I just wonder what would have happened if President Obama had been 
in office on 9/11.

Anyway, I'll be in and out of town because of family matters so I may 
not be able to respond to people on this for the next few days.  I just 
wanted to throw that out there.

Paul