Capable staff is perhaps the largest challenge facing terrorist organizations. If Al Qaeda could have sent four people with shoe bombs or underwear bombs, you'

Capable staff is perhaps the largest challenge facing terrorist organizations. If Al Qaeda could have sent four people with shoe bombs or underwear bombs, you'd better believe they would have. And if explosives were the limiting factor, that would mean Richard Reid and Umar Abdulmutallab were the most capable of agents on hand. And that simply doesn't paint a picture that suggests they have a very large pool of capable, dedicated terrorists to work with. Despite what the fear-merchants would have us believe, all indications are that there simply aren't that many intelligent, capable people who are willing to give their own lives to lash out at Western civilians.