Well now

Posted by Bob Janova at 1:47pm May 21 '11
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Those things (particularly Lockerbie which was kind of the culmination of things in that period) did result in greatly improved airport security and the development of bomb screening for the hold luggage.

But you are right, people weren't so obsessed with terrorism as they are (particularly in the US) today – and that in spite of a significantly more credible threat to most of us than exists today.

Counter-terrorism policy needs a huge injection of reality.
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