Originally Posted by
Often1
Until it's your kid being taken abroad against your will.
The TSA is a rather lousy line of defense even in the war on contraband weapons/explosives/incendiaries, and yet you want to defend the TSA spending resources in some kind of war against international child abduction and other things that don't undermine the security of my flights.
Terrorists and their sympathizers gain from the encouragement of resource distraction/diversion away from a focus on contraband WEI interdiction.