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Terror in the Skies, Again? (Parts 1 & 2) by Annie Jacobsen has sparked an interesting debate in the blogosphere.
As could be expected people are largely split into two camps:

The first camp, led by Michelle “The Marauder” Malkin, believes that th…

An update to that “Terror in the Skies” post I’ve cited a couple times now. Apparently there’s been a healthy dose of skepticism about the story, and several are trying to validate or refute it. So far, they’ve done neither…

Because. Right now it is U.S. policy to do random searches. It is U.S. policy to search or question no more than 2 Arab looking people per flight.

Realism is the answer. Realism is to understand that the American population is just not there. Just like before 9/11 we couldn’t fathom invading Afghanistan. Immediately following 9/11 we were able to take over Afghanistan even though there were some who were saying it would be like Vietnam and our soldiers couldn’t handle the cold. Well. Before 9/11 there was no way that the American people could fathom having increased searches and wait times at airports for no reason. After 9/11 though people were willing to wait with longer security lines. However the more time that passes people are less and less willing to be subject to searches. Polls show this.

Realism and common sense say that there is no way that we could ramp up personnel-wise to have searches of everybody. And it is offensive to me that I have to “answer” to you when it doesn’t take much “understanding” for you to understand that we couldn’t even get to your approach without the airline business suffering and another bid debate between Tom Daschle and the President about how many more government dollars and whether or not the newly hired airline personnel would be “unionized”. Realism. Well. Maybe you didn’t remember the “unionized” debate between Tom Daschle and others on the new batch of government employees.

All us common sensers and realistic people are saying is that you need to be SMART. Being smart is paying attention, looking at patterns. But in your eyes I guess we shouldn’t be smart or look at “patterns”. We should pretend that there are thousands of McVeighs ready to strike. We should pretend that there are whole McVeigh communities who are taught from birth to hate America and try to wipe off as many Americans off the face of the planet as possible. While we know there are idiots who have this intent in mind, those are individuals.

In the muslim world though there are millions who want to do us harm and instead of realistically accepting that fact you want to say we shouldn’t see any “patterns” and anyone who wants to be SMART, prudent and reasonable should be called racist.

Now how about you answer some questions…
1) Do you think we have the resources (in place) to change from random searches to searches of everyone?
2) If we don’t have the resources (in place) do you think Congress could authorize the dollars to get the resources in place?
3) Do you recognize that Americans do not have the stomach for doing what you recommend? And do you recognize that there would be a drop in people using the airlines if we implemented your plan?
4) If you recognize those things in #3, could you at least recognize that security personnel DO LOOK AT PATTERNS but in this instance are prohibitted by the Department of Transportation (Norm Mineta) and instead of calling people who want to be smart, reasonable and prudent racist that you will grow up and realize that reality exists.

After looking through the posts I don’t see where you called anyone racist but, here is a question for you… could you take a stand against people like Shed for us? I would like to see you do it…

Answer those questions in your next post. Please

14 terrorists on a single flight to construct a homemade bomb seems like an awful lot. I’ll bet that, since the bomb supposedly can be made out of several “innocent” components, it would only take several men to do it.

I also don’t accept that terrorists would be so clumbsily obvious about their movements and gestures to each other. It almost seems like they were acting so very very suspiciously in order to purpously draw attention to themselves… and maybe they were.
If something about the story seems out of whack it may just be because the “terrorists” were so many and so blatantly acting like terrorists.

The explanation that they were musicians travelling to a hotel in the desert is a cover story from the FBI or OHS and the air marshall who spoke to Michelle Malkin is as in the dark about all of this as Jacobson is.

I don’t know, of course. I’m just saying, is all…