Don’t you see how that in itself also fits into the pattern? We have this thread running through these news stories where hapless travelers get coaxed into saying, “Well, I don’t mind the extra time it will take if it makes me safer.” So they set you up thinking it’s going to take all this extra time. And then when you get there, it’s a breeze, so your reaction becomes, “Oh, I guess I was over-reacting. It wasn’t really such a big deal after all!”

In general I really dig what you’re saying here though. You may appreciate (or maybe not) some of the stuff I wrote recently in my piece on decoding airplane terrorism.