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Re:A Sensible Fix For TSA Security Lines by Retric on Thursday May 26, 2016 @03:48PM (#11780916)
The total number of terrorists is very low. 9/11 was a major operation and was not something they could ramp up.

PS: Hospitals are dangerous even for healthy people. Much like how trench warfare lead to the 1918 pandemic which killed between 50 and 100 million. Simply being around those with a compromised immune system represents a risk.

Re:A Sensible Fix For TSA Security Lines by SilasX on Thursday May 26, 2016 @05:25PM (#11781762)
>The total number of terrorists is very low. 9/11 was a major operation and was not something they could ramp up.

There is enormous support for terrorism and they have a lot of recruits. If they found something that worked, and nothing changed to make it stop working, you can bet they'd double down.

>PS: Hospitals are dangerous even for healthy people. Much like how trench warfare lead to the 1918 pandemic which killed between 50 and 100 million. Simply being around those with a compromised immune system represents a risk.

I'm aware, and yes, there's a tradeoff between the benefit of the hospital vs the risk of picking up something even worse. Point taken. But if you have a gunshot wound, you should probably go to a hospital. It would be a severe error of logic to say, "most gunshot deaths are in a hospital, so if I have a gunshot wound, I should stay away from a hospital" -- because that figure is an artifact of dumping a disproportionate fraction of living victims there.

It's likewise wrong to say, "cities are safe, look how the crime rate is the same as the suburbs" -- there is much more risk, they just work harder to control it.

Re:A Sensible Fix For TSA Security Lines by Retric on Thursday May 26, 2016 @06:47PM (#11782304)
Over seven years Iraq had 1003 suicide bomb attacks. That's far from zero, but hardly and endless tide. When you consider 9/11 where preceded by an early 'failed' attempt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bojinka_plot Which included a test bomb that killed one person but failed to down the aircraft. And out of 26 people that attempted 9/11 only 19 where part of the attack you find they actually got somewhat lucky even before heightened security.

The absolute threat is just not that high.

Re:A Sensible Fix For TSA Security Lines by SilasX on Thursday May 26, 2016 @07:08PM (#11782430)
Read the claim again: they will significantly ramp up attacks if they git a high kill ratio and security fails to change in response. The Iraqi forces certainly adapt security in response to the attacks, or they would be much worse.

It's not a refutation to point to zero rampup after a failed attack.

Re:A Sensible Fix For TSA Security Lines by Retric on Thursday May 26, 2016 @09:50PM (#11783340)
The refutation is they tried again after a failed attack, but not the successful one.