It seems to me that we spend kazillions on airport security, keeping pilots away from aeroplanes but letting unchecked catering trucks through etc BUT we allow tens of thousands to die on our roads, ten of thousands to die of heart disease and malnutrition, tens of thousands die from other preventable diseases.
Why? because it is not politically "sexy" to fix those things up.
If they devoted some of the money that is spent daily on airport and aircraft security on the things listed above casualty rates on aeroplanes would not change and the world as a whole would be far better off.
THAT is the way to stuff up the terrorists - they don't want a better world, they want a world created in their own warped image - stuff em up by making the world a better place and let us do our jobs - it just is too hard these days!