Who needs explosives or people willing to commit suicide??
Terrorists can now disrupt society with a simple phone call.
Who's really winning this war??
Since I can recall a period of time a few years back when I went days before seeing contrails in the sky, I'd say we are. We're still flying. Screw the inconvenience.
And your plan to resolve this?
We are. Minor inconveniences, but no major disruptions. Can you imagine if the Britain bomb plot had succeeded...then we'd return to post 9/11 days and empty airports.
My hubby and son just returned from a 10 day trip to Canada. They flew from Florida to Texas to Calgary, had to go through customs and security more than a couple times, but they said the attitude of passengers was upbeat and the planes were full.
We're definitely winning.
P.S. If, and I say if because I think the calls are made by pranksters instead of terrorists, but if the disruptions are caused by terrorists, they can't consider themselves successful because they delay a flight for a few hours.
We had bomb scares in school, but that didn't mean the druggy loser crowd won out.
Hopefully islam will fall into the dustbin of history just like the loser kids from high school.
Such a phone call would have had the same effect even if there were no terrorists left on the planet.
Old ploy of the Left -- I was in grad school at Boston University in the 70s (the era of Vietnam and student radicals), and they got as many as a couple of bomb threats a week for a while. (Temping summers, I sometimes worked in an office building that got them.) They certainly didn't get national coverage though; I don't even recall that they got local coverage.
After the first few, the professor/office manager when notified would just make the announcement and tell students/workers they could go outside if they wanted to while the fire department checked the building, but fewer and fewer people bothered.
They must have learned that from the Teamsters....every time the union wants to organize and company employees vote them down, the bomb threats begin on a daily basis.
All it takes is one nutcase to make a phone call. It happens ALL the time in schools and hospitals (white folks mostly), and while it is a minor inconvenience and must be taken care of, life goes on.
There are thousands more flights that go on with no hitches than these handful that are disrupted.
And there is no doubt of the answer to your question (did you really mean it?). WE are winning this war.
This is getting a bit thick.
And just a day after an entire flight was turned back, escorted by fighter jets, becuase a bunch of muslims were exchanging porno on their cellphones.
Osama must be laughing his ass off.
We are winning. The PC croud are going to start getting less and less PC as these idiots inconvenience them more and more.I love it when the Politically Correct crowd start getting more PO'd.