Earlier today, I finished listening to Peggy Noonan's Patriotic Grace on audio - a short book (4 hrs). For someone who comes from such a partisan background, she does a fairly good job at being even-handed at presenting both extremes of the political spectrum as needing to "cool the rhetoric" and unite. But, that's not why I started the thread.
She begins the book with a strong blast at airport security, using the "k word" (kabuki), lashing out at policies that harass passengers whom the govt knows are innocent, to make a pretense of "fairness". At the mid-point, she returns to the-horror-known-as-the-checkpoint, including her experience getting SSSS'd arbitrarily after speaking up in favor of a mother and little girl. At the end, she blasts the "gargantuan mess that is the DHS" (including the creepy name), urging its gutting.
Even if some folks don't care for Peggy, which I can understand, I thought the book worth noting. She does a thorough job of recognizing the Bush Administration for the failure it was - where I think some might find fault would be her desire to "move on", rather than examine the events more closely.