[at-fates-hands]

"The attention paid to terrorism in the U.S. is considerably out of proportion to the relative threat it presents."

W O W. My jaw completely dropped when I read this sentence.

Considering we've averted 40 terrorist plots since 2001 this is pretty scary somebody would actually print such a statement. Keep in mind, those 40 are the ones we actually know about as well.

I'll continue to put up with the minor headaches as long as we continue to stop these plots before airplanes crash into skyscrapers or car bombs start exploding in times square.

[Symmetry]

Did you read the entire article? The author rather explicitly showed that even if all 40 of those incidents would have resulted in the loss of a plane we'd still be better off going back to pre-9/11 security.

And the TSA doesn't have anything to do with car bombs in Times Square.

[flyinRyan]

40 terrorist plots! What a load of nonsense. I see it works on some people though. The fact is, most of the cases I've followed had no follow up... because they were thrown out for being ridiculous (remember the Disney world "bombers"?). The ones I've been hearing about for the past few years were almost certainly FBI entrapment (i.e. the person would had done nothing had the FBI not convinced them to and funded everything). So I'd put this number at closer to zero. Even if it's one or two, they still would have killed less people than have died on the highways trying to avoid TSA.

[EliRivers]

How many of those were instigated by the FBI?