Think about this stark reality for a moment: We now are all going to have to overload an already terribly broken health care system here in the US to take up a doctor's time to write us a prescription for some innocuous liquid just so we can take it on an airplane. While taking time to write us a needless prescription, that's all the less time said doctor will spend with real patients with real medical problems.

The judge and jury over the appropriateness of said prescription will be someone with perhaps a high school diploma or equivalent and a "working knowledge of English" who, just a week ago, was having a difficult time judging the thickness of a shoe's sole.

Congratulations, Osama. You've done it again -- this time without causing one drop of anybody's blood to be shed.