It wasn’t a big concern back then

2 Responses to It wasn’t a big concern back then

1. Rivrdog says:

   November 18, 2010 at 3:11 pm

   Even before the terrorist activity of the ’80’s, there were the hijackings of the late 60’s and early 70’s, where, IIRC, 29 aircraft were hijacked to Cuba.

   Those hijackings, frequent as they were, didn’t result in over-reaction.

   We have tripped on our Richard, no doubt about it, and the terrorists have won, just as surely as if they had put 20 loaded passenger aircraft into the oceans.

   They’ve won because we’ve abandoned important national principles just so we can say we did our best to stop them.

   The invasive searches are crisis management at it’s worst, especially since the obvious answer is staring us in the face: educated profiling.
2. Bram says:

   November 19, 2010 at 5:35 am

   At the time we were still in the midst of the Cold War. A plane crash was small potatoes compared to the treat of nuclear war. Many of these events were seen through the lens of the Cold War. Syria, Libya, and the Palestinians were with the Soviets. We knew the Russians were helping them – and we weren’t going to invade Syria and hang al-Assad as much as he deserved it because we didn’t want to start WWIII.

   With the Soviets gone, the terrorists are the new bogeymen. Because they aren’t the military threat of the old commies, we decided to fight them like pussies. We probe old ladies and kids at the airports because it might hurt feelings to concentrate on young Muslim men.

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