What's next?
Trouble is, we having spent a lot of resources tightening up security in the air, the - what shall I call them - perceived enemy simply goes over to another tactic:
Blows up trains and buses, coordinates riots at the drop of a hat, burns cars and generally continues to get into the newspapers and undermine any semblance of civic freedom. The effect on public life is the same.
It is so easy to terrorise folks in peacetime. You can drop lumps of concrete onto motorways, take hostages, threaten murder, carry out murder...
This perceived enemy must be laughing up its sleeve at the extent to which we must go to fly safely. It will be well pleased at the tying up of resources and effort. While the tolerant world regards it as an annoyance, the perceived enemy regards it as war.
Attitudes in the comfortable world are slow to change and it is precisely this fact which favours a radical poverty stricken and easily influenced perceived enemy.
FC.