[null and void]

The ragheads will have no trouble getting around the geniuses at the TSA when they launch their next attack.

What? Are you kidding? They probably will BE the TSA agents!

What would cause more terror and disruption - taking out an airplane or two, yawn, or destroying a bunch of irreplaceable screening equipment and several airports' worth of cheek by jowl crowded screening lines?

[Rome2000]

Anyone can walk into any terminal at any airport with a suitcase full of explosives and detonate it right at the security line.

That would show just how effective the TSA really is.

Do that simultaneously at 3 or 4 major airports and it would be 9/11 all over again.

I believe the Israelis stop cars a mile away from the airport and muzzies have a hard time getting any closer.

[zeugma]

What would cause more terror and disruption - taking out an airplane or two, yawn, or destroying a bunch of irreplaceable screening equipment and several airports' worth of cheek by jowl crowded screening lines?

Indeed. The cumulative effect of the nonsense that passes for "security" at airports is almost incalculable. How much lost productivity does it represent? I really couldn't even guess. If you want to really screw something up beyond all reason, all you have to do is involve the government in it.

Really, the only thing government is actually good at is breaking things and killing people.