Hey, there will be plenty of time to point fingers over who botched the tracking of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab later. For now, I’m wondering: How many other fathers have walked into U.S. embassies around the world and told staffers there that they were concerned that their sons were “falling under the influence of religious extremists in Yemen”?

If this happens all the time, everywhere, I guess I can see how it would get lost in the shuffle.

But if it’s rare, then it’s not easily excusable, and if it’s happened more than once . . . where are those other wayward sons now?