Maybe it’s just me, but I think there’s usually a step between brainstorming and announcing a decision.  Unfortunately, that doesn’t seem to be the case with President Obama.

On Feb. 8, Katie Couric asked Barack Obama straight out: “Have you ruled out trying confessed 9/11 mastermind  Kalid Sheik Mohammad in New York City?” To which Obama replied:

I have not ruled it out,  but I think it’s important for us to take into account the practical, logistical issues involved. I mean, if you’ve got a city that’s saying no, and a police department that’s saying no, and a mayor that’s saying no, that makes it difficult.

Gee, you think?  I would have thought that consulting with the New York City officials, police department, and mayor would have been done before making the decision to plant a terrorist magnet in their midst, just a short distance from the former World Trade Center, not to mention giving him all the rights and comforts that he denied almost 3,000 innocent people on that terrible day in 2001.

This is what happens when somebody’s first ever executive experience is the Presidency of the United States. As pointed out during the primaries, the White House is no place for on-the-job training.

Ms. Napolitano needs a reality check.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Sunday that the thwarting of the attempt to blow up an Amsterdam-Detroit airline flight Christmas Day demonstrated that “the system worked.”Asked by CNN’s Candy Crowley on “State of the Union” how that could be possible when the young Nigerian who has been charged with trying to set off the bomb was able to smuggle explosive liquid onto the jet, Napolitano responded: “We’re asking the same questions.”

If the system worked, why are there new changes to airline screening and in-flight procedures? If the system worked, there’d be no need for that.  If the system worked, the guy would never have gotten a bomb onboard.  Look, it was a lot of luck, and some brave passengers and crew, that kept the passengers of Northwest Flight 253 alive on Christmas.  “The system” apparently relies on stupid terrorists and heroic passengers.  Welcome to our National Security plan!

So pack some rabbit’s feet and four leaf clovers for your next flight.  They’ll keep you safer than the current administration.