Originally Posted by Brewfangrb

Ok, let's just say the WBI isn't "reactive" per se (like much of the other security is). If there had been a WBI in use on 9/11, what would have changed? Nothing. Because the rules in place, the attitudes taken toward hijacking and the commitment of the 19 POS on those planes that day would not have prevented it. (Even without a WBI, without a shoe carnival and without The Great Water Confiscation, 9/11 as it happened would not happen today. Simply securing the flight deck door and instilling a "killer desire" in the passengers would prevent a 9/11-type attack).

The terrorists know the "rules", gsoltso. They aren't going to try to bring on any fingernail clippers, bottles of water, 4.1 oz bottles of shampoo, wear shoes with lifts or bring any snowglobes to the afterlife. They WILL figure out a way to either: a) launch an attack on something that is being completely ignored (hmm, how about the checkpoint line itself or a mall?) or b) figure out a way to use the plane as a weapon within the current rules.

They may make it HARDER, but the TSA cannot prevent a determined terrorist group with a good plan. The country needs to stop thinking of terrorists as Koran-distorting, non-daily-showering, jabbering religious freaks and take them seriously as an ENEMY. For God's sake, Vince Flynn comes up with better terrorist plots as fiction that the TSA imagines it's stopping everyday by throwing away water bottles.