Thursday President Obama said, "...when the system fails, it is my responsibility."
That seems easy to say after the fact. There was no political risk in accepting responsibility after the whole thing is over and nobody was hurt. I can see Obama and his political advisers calculating that this kind of language sounds like something a leader would say and makes him seem resolute. But if Abdulmutallab had been successful in detonating his loaded underwear the finger of blame would be pointed everywhere but at Obama. I imagine that someone else would be shouldering the responsibility had this lunatic caused 300 innocent American casualties in the war on terror.
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