Originally Posted by Doppy
Wow. Do you have any idea how much it would cost to have El Al style security and interviews for every pax getting on a bus or train? 3.1 million pax ride the NYC subway every day. Tens of millions more take other bus or train systems. We're now talking about costs in the high hundreds of billions - just on cash outlays. The cost in terms of lost productivity would be in the trillions.
This would be a good way to destroy civil liberties and bring down the US economy.
Your plan is a bigger threat to the US than terrorism
... and that plan is what OBL & Co. are hoping for. Wrong lesson and flawed thinking or not, they are hoping to "bleed us" economically -- especially a la the Soviets -- by incentivizing an imperial overstretch.