Increased airport security allows nation states to defend themselves better from situations they create. e.g. the u.s. impinges on countries around the globe.

Increased airport security allows nation states to defend themselves better from situations they create. e.g. the u.s. impinges on countries around the globe. we could never survive the blowback without strong border security. as partwise beneficiaries of the booty, we Americans are expected to endure the dangers of releasing our biometry. to answer your question, the u.s. used to be the oppressed... england left us well-enough alone when we rose up, and we were growing internally, not bombing six countries at once, like we are now. so no one hated us enough and we had little hate for immigrants- we wanted them to help us grow. but then WW2 happened and we sold our souls to Saudi Arabia for oil the grow. And simultaneously, the military industrial complex happened. thats how its been for three generations now and hardly anyone wants to pull out. yes there were many other terror operations between 1800 and 1940, but their side effects, without widespread media, couldn't be leveraged to stymy the citizenry.