I think this statement sums up the outrage that many Americans feel about this whole mess.
Most grating in the White House report is the repeated notion that Abdulmutallab's plot failed. It didn't. Nine years after 9/11, and after billions of spent dollars in needless security, confiscated fingernail clippers, and dumped breast milk, he succeeded in smuggling explosives onto an airliner destined for American soil. He succeeded in igniting the explosive. If not for dumb luck involving bad chemistry and a brave Dutch film director, there might today be a smoldering crater in Detroit.
Yup, luck saved the day this one time. I'm pretty sure that we cannot have another try at this. The Bush people were right when they said: the terrorists have unlimited tries at this and we have to be right 100% of the time. It is just that simple. Luck should not be involved.
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