The only thing needed to protect ourselves from terrorists of this sort was the knowledge of what the terrorists were capable of. Before 9/11, it was inconceivable that this was possible, and the procedure was to let them have their way until they let the hostages go. The assumption was that the terrorists wanted to live to see their plan succeed. But on 911, before the 4th plane could damage anything, the passengers found out what was happening and saw to it that they failed. Any terrorists who now try the same sort of trick will fail, even with the same security measures in place before 9/11. All of our new security measure are simply window dressing, to make it seem like we're doing something, and to scare the PHRASECENSOREDPOSTERSHOULDKNOWBETTER. into reelecting our current politicians.

Damn, and I was going to stay out of this.