Like sheep love to be herded to their inevitable fate.  

What this means is a TSA database storing the details of millions of interviews, the personal details of anyone and everyone who gets on a plane. Oh, but don’t worry, only “suspicious people” will have anything to fear – you know, people with “suspicious” political opinions, or “suspicious” demeanors, or perhaps “suspicious” friends with “suspicious” political opinions. This is the “intelligence-based” methodology of a police state, which will be – and is being – proposed as an alternative – the only alternative – to the TSA’s high-tech –and-rubber-gloves.  

Yes, Isaac, explain why it works. Because servility is a habit easily acquired, and hard to kick.  

So how do we avoid our sheep-like fate? It’s the foreign policy, stupid! When half the world stops coming after us, when we stop playing the role of al-Qaeda’s top recruiter, the defense of the country will no longer be impossible.  

What the TSA’s reign of terror must teach us is the lesson we’ve been pushing here at Antiwar.com since our inception: that you can have an empire engaged in continuous warfare, or you can have your freedom – but you cannot have both.