The news that the CIA and allied intelligence agencies disrupted another attempt by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula to take down an airliner with a pair of underpants (or, it likely seems, actually infiltrated AQAP and made off with the explosive skivvies before they could be used) has set off a predictable round of teeth-chattering in the cable television class.
The summary? We may not know much — but we do know we stopped another “bad guy.”
