You're confusing targets with operational methodology. Your previous posts have indicated that al-Qaeda keeps using the same operational methodology until it succeeds--i.e. liquid bombs in 1994 and purportedly again now--yet now you're confusing the issue by saying, "See, they have the same targets! They don't change, so why should we?"

Of course, I am still waiting for an answer as to how the definitely al-Qaeda planned and executed attacks of 9/11 conform to previous attacks / attempted attacks. About how using planes as guided missiles--something dismissed as implausible due to differing from the prior terrorism modus operandi--constitutes continuing the same tactics until they work. If we'd been pro-active and listened to the suggestions that such an attack could be carried out, we might have stengthened cockpit doors and instituted "no cooperation" hijacking policies and averted 9/11. Nope, we kept fighting the last war.


Now you're confusing targets with tactics again. Yes, aviation is a target. However, liquid bombs vs. shoe bombs are not the same tactics. THIS is what red-teaming and pro-active security planning can prevent, but it is not preventable by reactive knee-jerk plans that are so poorly developed that they have to be constantly adjusted to fit reality.