Due to pure good luck, an attempted bombing of Northwest Flight 253 as it was approaching Detroit failed to cause any harm (except for burns on the attempted terrorist himself, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab).
Given that this was a failure of airport security (and possibly of the FBI and CIA, although it is hard to say at this point), one would think that the logical response would be to spend more money to beef up airport security and police forces with better equipment and resources rather than continually pour money into the military.
(Sure, money can't buy everything, especially with regards to airport security, which also relies heavily on procedure. However, even simply more personnel will help alleviate the bottlenecks that are appearing as airports react to the attempted bombing. Money poured into research, development, and installation of better equipment, such as tunable THz-frequency scanners, will also help in the future.)
Perhaps some people are more interested in retaliation than prevention, as described here by Dr. Dawg. Prevention may never be perfect, but one must remember that air travel is safe today due to people learning from mistakes made in the past. People will learn from this near-miss as they have from past disasters and near-misses. The worst thing to do now is to overreact.
Peace and long life.
1 year ago
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