This administration is taking political advantage with our national security. Desperate for a “win”, they capitalize on an opportunity where from their perspective it’s a “win-win” situation. How?

After the debacle that was the Christmas day terror attack, where our Commander in Chief and his top intelligence officer remained on vacation not to interfere with much needed and valuable “family” time, the administration sends FBI agents to Nigeria to meet with Mr. Abdulmutallab’s family. This kinder, gentler approach produces a talkative terrorist who reveals who he trained with and where, as well as other pertinent information they refuse to divulge under National Security issues. However, administration officials are comfortable enough to discuss openly what type of information they have received to give us insight to what they are doing and why their approach worked so well. Now we have information that the next attack is “certain” within the next three to six months. (Note: no increase in threat level).

The recent news developing about the KSM trial being moved from NYC to parts unknown has created a flurry of discussions about where and at what costs. Most importantly I believe is the plain fact that regardless of where we try him and his group, the risks will still remain high.

One of the key underlining problems with Americans today, are we believe the problem is always someone else’s. Things happen to other people; not here, not in my backyard. History has shown us this is not always the case. The Oklahoma attack by McVey, the World Trade Center attack in 93, and September 11, 2001 just to name a few.

I have long held that one of the reasons that we have not suffered an attack within the United States since 9/11 from Al Qaeda is due to the belief the mere threat of them is the actual attack. Bin Laden has stated he wants to attack us by all means possible, including economic attacks. Since the occurrence of 9/11, he and his organization have been able to be the bully on the block, forcing us to respond in what we believe to be an appropriate response to their threats. This response mechanism has caused us to spend hundreds of millions of dollars, and upwards of 1 billion dollars of economic impact for isolated incidents.