CNN posted an article today by Steve Danyluk, an international first officer for a major U.S. airline and president of The Independence Fund, a nonprofit that supports troops wounded in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Officer Danyluk was flying over the Atlantic Ocean on an international flight when the Christmas Day attempted bombing incident took place. 

Officer Danyluk states in the article:

“I only learned about the incident after landing when I looked at the CNN Web site on my iPhone. I’m justifiably furious that I was not notified while airborne.”

Why wasn’t this pilot notified about the bomb on an international flight?  I thought we were told that all airlines and airplanes were notified?  The one actual constitutional duty of the government is to defend us.  Have they abandoned that part of their job in order to pass laws that probably are not constitutional? 

Does anyone remember September 11, 2001?  I wondered at the time why President Bush grounded all airlines–I really didn’t understand.  Looking back, he probably saved a lot of lives by doing that.  It seems as if this administration chose to ignore the implications of having a bomb on an international flight.  Thank God they got away with their lack of action this time, but we may not be as lucky in the future.