I read a cartoon by Adam Zyglis - The Buffalo News posted 1/7/2010 titled "Fighting Terrorism". It compares the intelligence agency with terrorist, saying that they are both "many autonomous cells with no central leadership". I don't know if that is true. It might seem like the CIA and whatever other agencies are ineffective at preventing terrorism, but the reason that the underwear bomber guy was such big news is because that kind of thing almost never happens in the US. I have never personally experienced war, and I am very grateful for that. As far as I am concerned, the government has done an acceptable, but not perfect, job at sheltering me from bombs.
I agree that the government is doing a good job at protecting us and our freedoms but nothing is perfect. Moving on to the underwear guy, yes it was partly our fault for not putting him on the do not fly list but he did not go through American security so it was not our airport security that failed. Regardless, they have some things to fix and improve but overall they are doing a good job.
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