US can't handle AQAP's tactics
(NEWSER) - Can it be that the United States has met its match in al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula? The group's lack of a direct hit thus far seems more bad luck than effective counter-terrorism, writes Christopher Hitchens for Slate . In the meantime, AQAP has used our own desire to protect ourselves to sow disarray—see the "feeble-minded" half-protest this weekend of ever-stricter, but thoroughly reactive, airplane security tactics, Hitchens writes. We lack the will or creativity to preempt threats: AQAP sends toner, so we ban toner. They use liquids, we ban liquids. More»
