"The system worked."
That's usually good to hear.
But after a mega-failure, it tends to inspire fear.
That's a quote from Janet Napolitano, head of Homeland Security, and she's talking about the botched attempt to explode a Detroit-bound jet.
People on that plane are lucky the bomb didn't work.
And they were lucky to have Jasper Schuringa seated near the bomber. Schuringa jumped on the bomber, took the burning IED away, put the fire out with his own hands, put a choke hold on the bomber, and dragged him out of his seat.
"I don't feel like a hero. It was something that came completely natural... it was something where I had to do something or it was too late."
That's the part of the system that worked -
the part where Schuringa went berserk.
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