When the news emerged last week that a terrorist plot to detonate liquid explosives on as many as 10 flights from the UK to the U.S. had been thwarted, reactions were mixed.

Democrats, apparently unable to react to developments that don’t require Bush-bashing, somehow managed to twist the success into a failure. Repeating the absurd mantra that terrorists would not be targeting the U.S. if not for the war in Iraq, the Democratic Party showed itself incapable of understanding the world we live in yet again. That the very surveillance tools British authorities used to crack the case are the ones liberals have consistently opposed here in the U.S. didn’t seem to register.

On the far left fringes of the country, where such goings on are often dismissed as fictional elements of the "so-called war on terrorism," there were conspiratorial mutterings about a Karl Rove plot to distract attention from the Ned Lamont win in Connecticut.

Others were more inclined to embrace reality, but showed more concern for the inconvenience faced by airline passengers than for the plot itself.

All of them missed the point.

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