All I'm saying is, if the U.S. employed a competent system such as Israel's, maybe just maybe the 9/11 attacks would not have succeed because those guys would h

All I'm saying is, if the U.S. employed a competent system such as Israel's, maybe just maybe the 9/11 attacks would not have succeed because those guys would have generated some suspicion. Al Qaeda was already active prior to 9/11 and had attacked several U.S. targets e.g. the U.S.S. Cole, the embassy in Africa, etc. Furthermore, the U.S. had even received warnings from Israeli intelligence and, as I recall, German as well, about a possible plane-based terror attack in the works. Mossad is said to have been tracking some of the 9/11 hijackers in the U.S. For a more recent example of ignoring the evidence, see the Boston Marathon bombing, in which the Russians actually phoned to warn us about the Chechnyan brothers. The intel was there, but our system was--and is--so broken as to be useless. Close your mind, or open it; it's your choice. The Israelis have survived this long by being pragmatic. The Americans, not so much; we muddle through despite ourselves, not because of any particularly brilliant management of our borders and transport systems.