I fear that the military-industrial complex has finally found something to be afraid of that can't fight back: its own citizenry. Sadly enough, this is not an

I fear that the military-industrial complex has finally found something to be afraid of that can't fight back: its own citizenry. Sadly enough, this is not an issue of good people or bad people -- I think the vast majority of TSA screeners are good people who want only what's best for the public. This problem has two parts, framing and execution. The framing is a one-sided issue: who's going to argue that we need less security? It's a system designed to continue to turn the screws. Mark my words. It will not stop here. The execution is even worse: top-down, one-size-fits-all, factory-processing of people. This makes for an expensive, cumbersome, and inflexible system. Oddly enough, the more standardized you make security practices, the easier you make it for real terrorists to take down the system. It's the entire basis of asymmetrical warfare. Small groups of highly-nimble adversaries working against a huge standardized behemoth. The U.S. should have made a conscious decision not to play that game. But it didn't. When you have a problem that's defined poorly and executed poorly? Not much chance of improvement, I'm afraid.