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Americans who are obsessed with rights are making our country less secure. Richard Miniter on how they got in the way of preventing the attempted bombing of Flight 253.

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The underpants bomber teaches us that there are two kinds of Americans: those who'd rather be right and those who'd rather be alive.

The passengers were decidedly in the second camp.

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Richard Miniter

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