Apparently, the Obama administration cannot see a terrorist anywhere except among those who express their constitutional rights at tea party demonstrations. She exhibited a regrettable leftist's tendency to circle the wagons around her bureaucracy. She betrayed herself to be inept even in public-relations. She would have been much better served, and so would the bureaucracy she sought to defend, if she had admitted the obvious that the system broke down. When a father of good reputation tells an American embassy that his son is a dangerous Muslim ideologue, and the system cannot review its visa procedures, or it's fly watch procedures, or alert any other part of the system, the system is clearly broken down. Napolitano saw nothing wrong with this situation but, by God, they were going to investigate it.
It is ironic that the United States government has literally billions of dollars to invest in the propagation of the belief of global warming. It can enlist NASA, universities, think tanks, the media, and interest groups in the crusade against global warming. It is amazing what a few hundred billion dollars can do. Why cannot the government flex its muscles where it might actually do some good? Why cannot the government invest $2 billion in the opinion makers within the Muslim world to create an anti-jihadist atmosphere and make the extremists intellectually and emotionally beyond the pale?
It is not persuasive to say that intellectuals cannot be bought, they certainly can be bought and they have been bought by the bushel full in places like East Anglia. It is not persuasive to say that Muslims cannot be bought because no one is turned in Osama bin Laden. They can be bought just like anyone else, to hold otherwise is to reveal that one has never simply walk through an Arab bizarre. It is not persuasive to say that it is too late because such anti-jihadist opinion would not be received in the Muslim world. If that is so that we are in very deep trouble indeed because the war cannot be won, ultimately, without Muslim allies doing most of the dirty work.
