Christmas is an interesting time of year. Fat men in red suits, pine tree’s adorned and watered, and exploding powder sewn into underwear? Yea, it seems as though people who have ill will towards other don’t observe holidays.
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, with an explosive powder sewn into his underwear, attempted to blow up a Northwest Airlines plane on Christmas day. Commander and Thief Obama was quick to inform us, while in Hawaii on vaca, that this was an “attempted act of terrorism”, and “The United States will more than simply strengthen our defenses. We will continue to use every element of our national power to disrupt, to dismantle and defeat the violent extremists who threaten us.”
This is all very confusing. It truly is. But let us try and break this down.
First and foremost, there was a group out of the Arabian Peninsula that has allegedly claimed responsibility for the attack. This information should be taken with a grain of salt as my guess would be that claiming an attack like this would be a badge of honor, not to mention the guy could have just as easily worked alone. However, Philip Elliot of the AP says this:

Meanwhile, al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula claimed responsibility for the thwarted attack as retaliation for a U.S. operation against the group in Yemen. Yemeni forces, helped by U.S. intelligence, carried out two airstrikes against al-Qaida operatives this month in the lawless country that is fast becoming a key front in the war on terror. The second one was a day before Abdulmutallab attempted to bring down a Northwest Airlines flight as it prepared to land in Detroit.

Therefore as a result of continuing “to use every element of our national power to disrupt, to dismantle and defeat the violent extremist who threaten us” we have these extremist out there willing to bring down a plane of innocent people. To be fair, I’m all for protecting myself from violent individuals who mean harm, however the actions of occupying a person or nations land, and murdering innocent people, is going to create the exact extremism the government is “trying” to stop.
The sad part is that the people that don’t have their right to life taken away by despicable men acting in retaliation will have their rights of freedom stripped away by some TSA goon acting on stolen money.
Too bad Obama doesn’t care about the rights of Americans as he does the rights of the Iranians:

The United States joins with the international community in strongly condemning the violent and unjust suppression of innocent Iranian citizens, which has apparently resulted in tensions, injuries and even death. For months, the Iranian people have sought nothing more than to exercise their universal rights. Each time they have done so, they have been met with iron fist of brutality, even on solemn occasions and holy days. And each time that has happened, the world has watched with deep admiration for the courage and the conviction of the Iranian people, who are part of Iran’s great and enduring civilization. What’s taking place in Iran is not about the United States or any other country. It’s about the Iranian people and their aspirations for justice, and a better life for themselves. And the decision of Iran’s leaders to govern through fear and tyranny will not succeed in making those aspirations go away. As I said in Oslo, it’s telling when governments fear the aspirations of their own people more than the power of any other nation. Along with all free nations, the United States stands with those who seek their universal rights. We call upon the Iranian government to abide by the international obligations that it has to respect the rights of its own people. We call for the immediate release of all who have been unjustly detained within Iran. We will continue to bear witness to the extraordinary events that are taking place there. And I am confident that history will be on the side of those who seek justice.