Comment Re:The TSA is Ineffective (Score 1, Flamebait) 554
In fairness to the TSA, they should get some credit for the remarkable lack of success in underwear bombings and shoe bombings. By scanning for more obvious methods of attack, they've been quite effective at raising the level of difficulty to a degree where several attempts resulted in no damage to airplane, and one terrorist lighting his nuts on fire - a massive embarrassment for Team Assholes.
Turns out an underwear bomb is harder to pull off than a backpack bomb.
If the TSA was REALLY useless, the bombs aimed at us would be less useless. At the same time, things get through and no system is perfect. At some point, we need to be happy with pretty good and stop with the strip searching. The Israelis have a much better system.
That said, I travel most weeks and really don't find the security situation a burden. It's just a mild annoyance with the biggest problems being a distinct lack of consistency in the rules airport to airport. Can I have things in my pants pockets or not and why the hell would a foam knee brace need special attention if I'm wearing shorts, when everyone agrees they'd have no idea it was there if I was wearing slacks? Just say'n.