It would seem that President Obama is in a bit of a pickle. As most people know by now (and if you don’t, what rock have you been hiding under?), there was a terrorist attempt to blow up an airplane flying into Detroit on Christmas Day. There is no doubt that this was a terrorist action, with information clearly indicating that this was a plot facilitated by al-Qaeda. The terrorist himself – Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab – has claimed that he is only one of many who are planning the same type of attack on American targets.

It is only by a stroke off dumb luck that the Obama administration didn’t have a full blown terrorist catastrophe on its hands. However, having dodged that bullet, and having knowledge that other attacks are in the planning, what has Obama decided to do? As of now, it is being handled in our normal judicial system, with the terrorist being given all the rights and privileges due an American citizen (which he is not).

Why, you might ask, isn’t this terrorist being interrogated using all available means to find out everything he knows? Why is this not be a top priority, seeing that another attack of which he may have knowledge could occur at any moment? Why? Because Obama is stuck between being President of the United States and protector of it’s people, and the rhetoric of the left to which he has subscribed that says that such interrogation is criminal.

It’s a tough spot to be in, and I wouldn’t want to be him. Coerce this terrorist to spill his guts using every available legal mean and you run afoul of your political base. Don’t do everything you can to get this information and have another attack succeed and you are toast as the leader of our country and are directly responsible for deaths that occur as a result.

It all seems so simple and easy when you don’t have a real world situation to deal with. Now President Obama does. It seems that al-Qaeda is more than willing to teach Obama the lessons he needs to learn. Too bad it will be the citizens of this country that will pay the price of his education.