Originally Posted by
saulblum
You can have all the dogs and heavily armed police that you'd like, but how do you protect against a suicide bomber who is determined to kill himself or herself anyway?
Realistically there is little chance of doing so once the attack is in train. Then the only way is to interdict the bomber before reaching the target area and that's difficult. There are the 11 indicators supposedly used by Israel, but what works in a Mediterranean climate is not applicable to winter in Moscow. Or Chicago, New York etc.
The real protection comes from intelligence before the act, as was apparently the case in this attack but came too late. Armed police
might dispatch the bomber at the airport (or wherever) but they are equally likely to blow away some innocent party as has happened in the UK.
Drastic measures (you listening DHS?) at airports would simply move the target area, possibly to an even easier location. I think an attack of this kind is unlikely in the US but should it happen then it is simply something that must be dealt with and life will go on as it does in other countries. The US would almost certainly go into panic mode though. Again.