There's a lot of wild talk bouncing around here. As benoit asks, "What is your complaint with him specifically?" and I guess "What do you want him to do?"
As for Secretary Thompson having no science background, most Cabinet members were politicians or executives in their prior lives. Lincoln had no executive training but he turned out to be our greatest Chief Executive ever.
As for the virtues of European airport security, remember that European countries have only a handful of airports at most, not the thousand as we have here, each feeding into others.
[This message has been edited by VicOsaki (edited 11-18-2001).]