What's Been and What's Ben

So another terrorist tried to kill Americans with an airplane. This time a Nigerian with Yemen ties named Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. He made a bomb, but was an idiot who should have spent more time studying and less time hating on America because we are more awesome than everybody. I agree with a recent New York Times opinion piece by David Brooks, which I got free on Air India business class, hypothesizes that Americas prosperity comes from our ability to adopt new ideas. 9/11 wasn’t over before we figured out how to stop planes from being crashed into buildings. Flight 93 learned in-air about what was going on and put a stop to a potential attack on the White House, Capitol, or Washington Monument. This time a boarder-line retarded pitiful excuse of an engineer fails in making a good bomb and gets tackled by a Dutch dude who had been taking a nap or something and then restrained by others on the plane. Now he is covered in burns, his face must be so red, and will spend the rest of his life behind bars. I don’t think terrorists realize how Westerns act on planes now. I see something going down, it instantly becomes a survival game. Silly terrorists. The dude was just a spoiled rich kid who wanted to play radical in a lame attempt to keep it real. He was a mechanical engineer, take from that information what you will.

On a strange side-note, I feel some strong sympathy for the Nigerian dude who was on the same flight two days later and got sick around landing time. I am sure he was detained hardcore – the victim of bad timing and potentially for carrying an enchilada bomb.