You obviously know nothing about Europeans. Europeans’s don’t have the “real security” that you think they do.
Back in 98 at the Frankfurt Airport I saw a security guard standing in the entrance of a restricted area. He was holding what looked like an M4 Carbine. It sure the hell looked like “Real Security.”
I think we have lost the train of this argument. I have never said that the Europeans don't have real security. What I said is that their view of what makes for a secure environment is very different from the TSA view of the world. My experience is that it is much more based on real investigative work, and, in Italy where they had, years ago, the threat of the Brigatta Rosa, carabinieri at the airport with the arms and training to engage armed attackers in armed combat. It was not an idle threat as it had happened in Italy on more than one occasion, IIRC.
My experience is that they also have little use for our "feel good" tactics of searching out shampoos and harassing old ladies whose identity as European citizens is well established.
Ever since the bombing at the Frankfurt departure terminal (1985) the Germans have paid attention.