Originally Posted by HiRandy
Please go back and review every Al Queda attack against US interests.
You will discover that they return to techniques and targets over and over again in almost every case.
Countering that is not fighting the last war, as least week fairly clearly demonstrated. It is averting the next one.
Are you related to the suspended FT formerly known as MichaelChertoff? This is from December 16, 2005:
Originally Posted by michaelchertoff
Having said that, what seems obvious ("the stated shoe policy") has been a moving target, since it is a proven method of choice for attempting to destroy an airplane, and Al Queda is notorious for returning to old methods that fail until they succeed.
It is one of the ways they use terror to attempt to demoralize the public.
Of course, he was unable to give any statistically significant examples.