Originally Posted by PatrickHenry1775
All that being said, the other factors in my earlier post are still true. We did not experience any terrorist attacks aimed at transportation until 9/11, when al-Qaida terrorists, not Americans, attacked our country.
Presuming that the past was a perfect indicator of what would happen in the future is what got us into the 9/11 mess in the first place. We assumed that hijackers would set planes down gently in Cuba, ignoring the body of evidence which said that many would actually like to crash planes into buildings.
And here once again we see that many want to create a brittle system that's targeted towards yesterday, not tomorrow.