Originally Posted by
TSORon
Other countries are not the USA. 9/11 did not happen in another country.
And you think the US is the only country to have terror incidents happen in it?
London and Madrid both had subway bombings and you don't see the stupidity there to get on the subways there.
Reid did not try to blow up an aircraft flying to another country. He intentionally targeted a US bound aircraft, because of the US citizens aboard and that the carrier is a US company. He didnt choose El Al, British Airways, or Air France. He picked American Airways. Other countries dont have people take off their shoes because they have never been the target of a shoe bomb plot, but the USA has been.
And Reid got on at CDG and they don't have a shoe carnival. Perhaps the French don't see it as the threat. Do you think the French want to have planes falling out of the sky that originate in their airports? I don't think so. Regular shoe bombs would be detrimental to their aviation industry.
Its a pretty simple concept. Why are so many of you folks having such trouble understanding it?
Let me give you a simple concept, Ronnie.
Pan Am 103 was blown up over Locherby, Scotland. That was also a US bound flight on a US carrier. To this day, TSA STILL doesn't screen cargo effectively (if at all, in a lot of cases) and we've been lucky another one hasn't happened.
What made Reid's attempt so special and why are efforts to make Pan Am 103, which actually DID succeed, half hearted attempts at best? Answer me that, Ronnie.
If TSA doesn't see cargo as a threat, that's fine. However, in light of that, it can't justify the shoe carnival by deeming one a threat and one not based on one failed incident when it ignores a SUCCESSFUL one.
You can't have it both ways.