Description of Faisel Shahzad: "He was like you, like me, handsome, liberal and an active person"

The NY Slimes has written an article about the Times Square bungler in which they ask the question: what made him a "radical?" The headline blames the economy: Recession changed NYC bomb suspect.  And as all good NY Slimes readers know, the recession was caused by George Bush and the rotten Republicans so ... all we have to do is connect the dots.  Say it together folks: "It was George Bush's fault!"

“The question is who has put Faisal in this path?” Mr. Ahmad asked. “The Faisal with the beard that you see, he was not the old Faisal. He was like you, like me, handsome, liberal and an active person.”

So here we have this innocent, NY Slimes reading, active, liberal turned from the path of righteousness, hugging trees, saving the whales, envisioning whirled peas, transformed by George Bush into a would-be American slaughtering, beard wearing, resume inflating, globe trotting, huge carbon footprint leaving,  Jihadist who despite his best efforts and his privileged upbringing and multiple degrees from American universities can't manage to set off an explosion when some ignorant boob from the sticks can make one from fertilizer and fuel oil.

If this is not an indictment of the American educational system, and liberals in general, I don't know what is.