[hchutch]

Are you saying we should have waited until some American city vanished under a mushroom cloud?

[JohnGalt]

Do you think that is some kind of thought provoking question or something? Or is a black and white world the only way you can make sense of the events that transpire?

The goverment should have fired and stripped the pensions of every federal law enforcement and bureaucratic official remotely associated with terrorism after 9/11. The borders should have been sealed and every questionable character sent back to their home country. The FAA should have repealed their own law barring firearm possession on airplanes and let individual commercial lines set their own carry-on weapons policy.

Had they done that, I would have been happy to listen to your boogeyman theories.