Originally Posted by
Wally Bird
That there have been zero IEDs inside the US since the beginning of the WOT is because nobody is trying it, not because anybody is preventing it. And I agree, there many other softer and more horrifying target locations than airports.
The next attack won't be aviation. Here are the required ingredients:
- Shaky economy
- Troubled retailer
- Three random locations in the US
- Christmas shopping season
If suicide bombers were to target a single troubled retailer, say Sears, with bombings over a period of a few days, they could very effectively put that retailer out of business, seriously damage the US economy -- in the economy's current state it could create a very deep recession, and do untold damage to the American collective psyche.
Are we going to have a "papers, please" environment in our shopping malls?