Are Security Checkpoints the Way to Go? »
While undoubtedly there are those who will tout the announcement that the UK has foiled a massive plan to blow up a series of trans-atlantic planes a success and we should all be growing warm fuzzies about now, I'd suggest that perhaps the exact opposite is true: About now, we should be feeling even less secure than ever.
The reason? Because the plot itself centered around a decade-old plan that uses liquid explosives to do the damage. This in itself should probably not cause any new panic, but the problem is that existing detection equipment cannot detect the explosives in question. That should make you wonder. The reaction of the government in our country is not to try and figure out how to do so, it is instead to make it mandatory that you remove your shoes:
