TSA reform modeled after Israeli airline safety would eliminate re-inventing the wheel, improve US passenger comfort/safety. The hijacking of planes to use as missiles was far from a novel idea.  It was one of the war games scenarios but escaped being thwarted and stopped due to disorganization and squabbling between many, many US government defense and intelligence factions.  For many years, and presently to a certain extent, the US has chosen to re-invent the same wheel used by the Israelis for generations.  Even before skyjacking was invented supposedly by goody-two-shoes Yes-sir Arafat, hero of liberals everywhere, the Israelis had years of experience in airline safety.  Yet the US continues to follow its own council ignoring all that Israeli genius and experience to invent its own airline safety procedures.

Powers-that-be are like fropers with no light in the dark, being too proud to ask help from the Israelis.
The Israelis do NOT own patents on super effective airline safety--the US can and very well SHOULD emulate their wisdom.  Israelis were probably issuing paper slippers in the 1980s for the flight and sending all the shoes home with the accompanying passenger's relatives so that new inspected x-rayed shoes would be supplied by relatives at the destination.

Following Israeli airliner safety, the smoking, drinking and hoochie-coo dancing Shoe Bomber Richard Colvin Reid would have been thwarted BEFORE he even got on the airplane. Why did he have matches? Many factories and businesses have restricted matches and lighters since the 1960s. Surely, keeping these off an airplane was standard BEFORE the Shoe Bomber, yet the match smell tipped off the fuse-lighting. As for the water bottle the SBer was doused with, that has been banned EVEN IF YOU DRINK FROM IT.  Famously a mean, cruel, straight-razor toting TSA lady who probably overstuffed her uniform, forced a child to drink his biology pond specimen gathered on vacation for a school assignment. The lady knew she was going to disallow the water but wanted to see if the boy would drink it. Hopefully she is earning even more money---in Alaska. The boy got sick, could have died but did not get to take the water on the plane. Logic is apparently that YOU MIGHT NOT GET VIOLENTLY ILL FROM drinking clear gasoline or chemicals or fake it.  Entirely possible.
It was reported that Shoe Bomber Reed was gently tapped on the head with a fire extinguisher at least twice or even thrice because he did not sustain a blow shortening his height by several inches the first time he was smitten and was a menace to the other passengers.

Shoe Bomber Reed was convicted in a court of law of possessing a WMD or Weapon of Mass Destruction while many TONS OF EXPLOSIVES and BOMBS found in Iraq AND Soviet jet MIGs to drop them--were NOT considered by the loving and caring US and world MASS MEDIA as WMDs. (1) As Libya tried to buy a nuclear bomb from China in 1970 and Russia in 1992, Saddam Hussein passed along his budding nuclear program in sympathy that Muammar al-Qaddafi's own program had remained embrionic despite 30 years of ambition. Moamar Gadhafi,Gaddaffi,Qaddafi admitted the Hollowed out Mountain contained the nuclear program that Saddam Hussein had donated, imported, and continually financed.  With Saddam Hussein hanged, no money forthcoming, Qaddafi turned it over to the US. Later, videotaped via cell phone, Qaddafi was murdered on the hood of a truck---but he died like a MAN - did not grovel or beg. He did try to reason with his captors while they roughed him up, but vengeful and callous, Gadaffi previously wounded, they shot him to death.  He knew he was going to die.

The unconvinced loving and caring US and world MASS MEDIA further denied that Saddam Hussein HAD ever had a nuclear program or POSSESSED WMDs of any sort although WMDs were reported and lamented by big-wig Democrats since the early 1990s this was ignored in order to blame Bush for invading a NO WMD zone.

Is it now clear and presently dangerous and STUPID to say Iraq has NO WMDs even though hundreds of pounds of explosive ordinance as IEDs has been killing US GIs by the dozens for years? No, because the lie was repeated so many times against Bush that nobody had now nor had then, the guts to admit that they were WRONG and Bush was RIGHT.

Is it not obvious that having NO TROOPS in Iraq or Afghanistan COULD be OK with sufficient "Death From Above" drones and sufficient mines of both countries borders away from cities and villages?  These measures would also curtail DRUG and contraband SMUGGLING as well as infiltration by Iraq's and Afghanistan's enemies which surround BOTH countries.



http://www.duffelblog.com/2013/03/iraq-war-retroactively-justified-by-discovery-of-saddams-wmds/

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