After reading all the posts here I've come to the conclusion, that the terrorists have accomplished what terror is suposed to accomplish! The purpose is to destroy your unity, and turn you against your own people.
The idea of terrorist action is to make it so hard to find the offenders, in a country that doesn't allow a sensible ethnic profiling, that laws have to be changed to allow the different law bodies to use extrodenary methods to be competive with the NO UNIFORM, NO COUNTRY, NO LEGITAMATE ARMY, terrorists, that have only one thing that sets them apart from everyone else, the fact that they are generally between the ages of 17 yrs, and 35 years, and of middle Eastern origin, a difference that can only be effectively combated with profiling.
The effect of the measures needed to combat these murderous criminals, place the public against their own government, further impeading the rooting out of these sorry bastards, and the talk, in forums like these, is a real resource, for the terrorists to guage their effectiveness!
Terrorists are not soldiers, who are bound by the Geneva convention, but sick bastards who love beheading people on TV, and they are crininals, and murderous bastards, who are bent on KILLING every person on Earth,man, woman, and child, who is not a lock step RADICAL MUSLIM. Being a MUSLIM doesn't mean you are automaticlly a terrorist, but being a terrorist, in this case, does mean you are a automaticlly a MUSLIM. A couple of sick-os like BIN LUNATIC, are the problem, not the religeon, but the outcome is percipatated by those who empeed the efforts to fight these bastards!
This is like two people playing a game of Chess, with one side haveing to play by a set of known rules, and the other side makeing up the rules they play by as they go! Which side do you think is going to win?
Folks there comes a time when you must decide if you are on the side of murderers, or your own kind, and start helping find these rotton bastards, instead of whineing about being a little inconvienced, by security measures!
Just a thought, that I realize will not be popular with pacifists, but that is my OPINION!