Re http://infowarrior.org/pubs/oped/tsa-americanism.html

Forno and other folks who complain about TSA bill-of-rights-shredding have yet to explain how to allow airplanes to fly over others (who haven't chosen to take risks, see Lockerbie) when those airplanes can blow up if a single blonde female is clever enough.

What is remarkable is that (admittedly sympathetic) government-skeptics like Forno never touch the third rail: Perhaps ME intervention is the root cause. Read the fatwas. Folks in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. Folks in glass empires shouldn't fly drones. Or make enemies that know how to throw stones.

But if you suggest this, you'll soon be hanging out with Helen Thomas.

How did the IRA finally get the conversation above the table? A bomb too close to Thatcher?

We know historically that in the Moses/Pharoah terrorism cast study described in Exodus, when the pain gets too bad, the state caves.