Originally Posted by Bart
I'll go along with most of what you said except for the window dressing comment. I don't believe that our current security measures are window dressing. Window dressing, to me, means just for show with no real substance to it. I think there's a lot of substance behind the measures we use, I just don't think they're appropriate to the level of threat we face.
The better metaphor might be a leaky boat. You can't plug the leaks by reinforcing the solid areas of the hull, and that is what the TSA has been doing.
"Look we have a 6 inch steel hull. We have a strong safe ship!"
"What about that leak over there?"
"Look, if I add another inch to the hull, it will be even safer!"