And if al Qaeda is gone, there's certainly no shortage of other folks out there who wish us ill, and now they've seen that we can be hit, and we can be hurt. They'll have a convenient template for how to hit us, left over from Osama, and we'll be sitting ducks again because we're too damn shortsighted to put up with even the minor inconveniences of having our bags searched before getting on a plane. And someone will see that and take advantage of it.