Re:Security? (Score 5, Insightful)

You're missing the point of the parent post. No one is saying that terrorists are winning any physical fight against the USA. The whole point of the post is that the terrorists have acheived their goal of "terrorizing" us, in making people fear them and spend billions on redundant defense measures. Of course, SOME kind of security is needed in airports and whatnot, but whether we have gone to far is up for argument. The point is, the whole goal of terrorism isn't to kill a few people, the goal is to use the killing of a few people to make huge (economic) impact for millions of people. It doesn't matter that there hasn't been another big terrorist attack on our land, we are still playing into their hands by making such a big deal of the terrorist attacks so long ago.