Getty ImageOn December 29, 2009,U.S. President Barack Obama spoke to the American people from Marine Corps Base Hawaii located at Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii.
In his opening statement Obama said, "Yesterday I updated the American people on the immediate steps we took, the increased screening and security of air travel, to keep our country safe in the wake of the attempted terrorist attack on Christmas Day."
Soap Box Ravings asks what does it take to make a terrorist attack? In this case, a Muslim on a US aircraft preparing to land initiated an explosive device and the President of the United States of America refers to the incident as an attempted attack instead of a failed attack.
If you point a gun, at a police officer be it real or a BB gun I can guarantee you it will be seen by that officer as an attack in progress.
Soap Box Ravings feels that regardless of the failures of our security system, which the Secretary of Homeland Security initially said worked perfectly, as long as the President and his peers see these incidents as just "attempts" the security system will never work.
Soap Box Ravings believes neither the President nor the Secretary of Homeland security appear to understand what they are up against; or perhaps they just don't care.
