Airbubba
I walked onto the ramp at Heathrow without showing an ID a few years ago. Since Lockerbie things have improved but raising security to American standards is still a very novel concept as you can see from other threads here.
What happened "a few years ago" is irrelevant. I managed to walk around a secure area (by mistake, as it happens) at a major US airport without ID, uniform or a hi-viz jacket. Never challenged by the dozen or so people I walked past.
In order to reach US standards of security, we would need to:
Find security chiefs willing to turn up to work drunk
Employ vast numbers of illegal aliens with no valid papers
Should I go on? Probably not...
Yes, it would take a bit to raise our standards that high...
412A
it wasn't Westminster Abbey/St Pauls cathedral that was destroyed by a terrorist group bent on murdering as many citizens of the 'west' that they can.
No, it wasn't, but we did lose a sizeable chunk of a Scottish town when a US jumbo fell on it after a terrorist attack... oh, but that doesn't count, does it... didn't happen in America.
I suggest that the people who live in other western nations start to wake up to the grave threat we face
We did... many years ago. We are very pleased that you are finally catching up.
Edited to remove irrelevant comments destined to derail the thread.