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Hot take: The immense security theater and waste of time created due to creation of the TSA following 9/11 and our increased interest in fixing the Middle East
by endisneigh 5y ago
Hot take:
The immense security theater and waste of time created due to creation of the TSA following 9/11 and our increased interest in fixing the Middle East is just insult to injury.
All that and now we’re leaving with basically no results? SMH. If we’re leaving can we get rid of the TSA at least and restore some sanity to airplane travel?
- mikysco 5y agoI genuinely think this is status quo opinion in 2021. At least amongst the HN/reddit demo.
- sharken 5y agoThe Middle East cannot be fixed by using force. Only if you have a clear target such as taking out Saddam Hussein, it can work if you get out immediately afterwards. I hope lessons are learned.
- stephen_g 5y agoYeah, I mean sure, if you want to create a power vacuum that leads to the creation and rise of ISIS…
- anonAndOn 5y agoI'm sure you realize who has filled that vacuum, that regional powerhouse next door that shares its largest border? Maybe by giving them such an enormous gift we're frenemies, after all?
- azth 5y agoWho's audacious enough to claim that they want to "fix" the "Middle East" (a colonialist term by the way). Do people ever stop to think why it's in its current state to begin with? Who split it up divide and conquer style? It's those same people who want to "fix" it.
- ergocoder 5y agoThe real lesson is to install a dictator puppet who guarantees terrorism won't be exported. Woman children being raped and slaved? That's the dictator's fault, not US. We can't intervene another country! You see? Win-win
- neither_color 5y agoWe can’t even show our faces in airports anymore. The TSA is not going away and neither is the disease testing industrial complex. The same type of people who are absolutely certain about the necessity of our current disease containment measures were the types who were ok with the TSA.