For the past week or so, I haven’t been able to leave the TV tuned to the news very much because my wife has started heckling the President over his terror strategy. This blurb (via Kos) would only fuel her fire:
While the British terror suspects were hatching their plot, the Bush administration was quietly seeking permission to divert $6 million that was supposed to be spent this year developing new homeland explosives detection technology.
Doesn’t this make you begin to wonder just how interested in providing homeland security our homeland security officials actually are. True, we do (or should) have a limited budget, but one would think that explosives detection tech is something that ought to be a priority when you’re investigating a plot to sneak explosives onboard jets disguised as innocuous substances?
Meanwhile, as I contemplate how I’m going to pack for my next business trip, I can’t help but consider the merits of Israeli-style profiling and questioning (something that isn’t kosher in the States due to accusations of racial/religious discrimination), or even the simplest suggestion I’ve heard yet - hand every adult boarding a plane a Louisville Slugger, limit what individuals can take into the onboard lavs, and let us keep our water bottles and laptops.