Sorry to see you go.
I disagree with a couple of your points.
This is WWIII?
If it is, then how will we know when it is over? How many years without a major terrorist strike on our soil will signal its end?
We all know that this isn't WWIII. Three years ago we suffered a highly coordinated attack by 19 terrorists. They are all dead, and the brave men and women of our Armed Forces have spent the last three years trying to kill what's left of their leaders and organization.
Sure it will happen again. But nobody knows when. Or where. Or how.
But to tell me that we need to treat people the way we do at airports (and coming soon to subways and train stations) in the hope of preventing another terrorist attack insults my intelligence.
If this is a war, it is one waged against Americans, by Americans like yourself. You went from fighting enemy combatants to treating people poorly here on our soil. In the days and weeks immediately following September 11, 2001, you probably thought that it was a good idea to help strengthen the system that some blame for the attacks. Many of your similarly patriotic colleagues thought the same thing, and some still do. Still others have resigned from Mineta's/Magaw's/Loy's/Stone's circus of an agency for many reasons - some because they see the futility of spending billions of dollars annually looking for sharp and pointy objects and examining shoes.
I know it's your job, but your job description requires treating people poorly. You are free to disagree. Of course, I would expect disagreement from someone collecting the salary.
Several of the posters here who claim to be employed by the TSA are fond of asserting that the anti-TSA attitude of some FlyerTalkers is an extreme minority view and that most Americans are highly satisfied with our new security regime. Perhaps. Then again, most people rarely fly; several million people will account for a substantial portion of this year's 700 million or so passengers in the USA.
Perhaps there's a website out there where none of the posters are critical of the TSA. Where only "Kudos to TSA!" posts appear.
While my hypothetical
www.InfrequentFlyer-AdmireEverythingAboutTSA.com might stroke the bruised egos of our poor downtrodden public servant TSA employee posters, the posts there would seem to provide little real useful information. But if that's what you're looking for, good luck in your quest.
Some of us (probably not many of us - I'll grant you that) will continue to call it the way we see it, despite frequent requests by people who say they work for the US government that we bite our tongue.