Terrorism and health care: Connecting the dots ~ By Star Parker

Commentary from WorldNetDaily

By Star Parker Posted: January 09, 2010 ~ 1:00 am Eastern © 2010 As President Obama announced his analysis of how the Christmas Day near miss terrorist attack occurred, Democratic Senate and House leaders conferred in secret to produce a health-care reform bill. Despite extensive information on the would-be terrorist, each piece of which was incriminating on its own, the man evaded a vast government bureaucracy and almost blew up a plane filled with Americans. Yet, Democrats, with the health-care bill they are now piecing together behind closed doors, will bring all American lives and health care under the purview and control of government bureaucracy. Talk about an inability to connect the dots. The initial assessments of the terrorist incident that both the president and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano shared with the nation were wrong. The president called the man an "isolated extremist." Napolitano said the "system worked" and expressed doubt that the man had al-Qaida connections. But the president and Napolitano did get something right. They identified what did work. What saved the lives of innocent Americans were private citizens, using their own brains and initiative, who acted to bring this terrorist down. The president said that this near disaster was "not the fault of a single individual or organization, but rather a systematic failure across organizations and agencies." So no heads will roll. READ FULL STORY >