I think Jay Nordlinger is taking the right path by praising Alhaji Umaru Mutallab, the father of the attempted Christmas day airline bomber (or undiebomber).

This is a man who not only came to the realization that his own son had become a radical, but decided to report him to American authorities. We could have done just about anything at that point, from arrest to counter-terror operations that ended with the undiebomber’s death. We didn’t, of course, but the father had no clue that we wouldn’t act. For all he knew, Mutallab may’ve been signing his own son’s death warrant.

And yet he still came forward and turned in his own son. Because a threat was being posed to innocent people. That’s quite a human being.