Personally, I'd rather get blown up than put up with much more airport security hassles.

It's somewhat selfish of me, but I figure that if I were to fly on a commercial airliner everyday for the rest of my life, with pre-9/11 security, the chances of me being the victim of an act of terrorism would be almost zero.

(Break, break, break...)

TSA screenings and no-fly lists are passive measures. They are static. The enemy trying to penetrate those defenses has the initiative. He can fail 100 times. He only needs to succeed once - and every once in a while, he will succeed.

This war must be fought on the offensive. I know it sounds irritatingly cheesy, but "Be the hunter, not the hunted."

No matter what we do though, the enemy will get through to targets in the West. When he does so, it is not necessarily reasonable to go into psycho-hall-monitor-from-hell mode.

I'll leave the rest to Christopher Hitchens...