As I've been saying since September 13, 2001, or so, our government is failing us by acting as though all 280 million of us are terrorists (or potential terrorists) and then clearing us only when we are sharp and pointy object free.

Problem is, our system doesn't stop (or even attempt to identify) the terrorists. Instead, we boosted the pay of the sharp and pointy object searchers and then declared victory.

Somewhere, in that haystack of passengers, could be lurking a terrorist or two (probably not many more), yet our TSA (and our new TSA FT friends) continue to do nothing about that possibility. One even posted that he/she didn't want any alarms and wanted nothing more than to move us annoyances thru the checkpoint so they would have more time to chat.

That's my problem with the whole premise behind the TSA. Its whole solution is to slow down the checkpoints (as is almost always the case where I travel), annoy non-terrorist Americans, and ultimately do nothing to identify and stop real terrorists from flying. What a crappy solution. I expect more from the US government.