Was the 'Tighty-Whitey Terrorist' al-Qaeda's best shot?

Eight years ago, most experts were convinced that the terrorists would have hit us with a dirty bomb by now. Dirty underpants just aren't as menacing, writes Washington Post Columnist Dana Milbank. "Blowing up an individual plane is terrible, but it's nothing compared to the catastrophic terrorism risk that most of us feared we'd see soon after 9/11," said Joe Cirincione. "We figured there would be a huge escalation in the terrorist attacks." What emerged instead, he added, was "one crazy 23-year-old kid with plastic explosives -- this is not the kind of sophisticated attack you'd need to do something like a nuclear weapon." Certainly, the Obama administration should patch the holes in aviation security and fix the newly uncovered gaps in intelligence. But it's more important to redirect some of this frenzy over the underwear bomb to where it really matters: keeping nuclear materials away from terrorists, writes Milbank.