Over-reaction or Slow-learner?

Which is it- over-reaction or slow-learning? I'm referring to the new airport security rules hastily put in place after the Brits brilliantly broke up a beastly bomb brouhaha. When heightened airport awareness of passengers' personal property was necessary to nullify nasty notions of a nefarious nabob, it was box-cutters and other sharp objects that were prohibited on flights. Next, after an idiot tried to blow up a plane with explosive soles, it was screening of suspicious shoes. Now, after crafty, crazy conspirators colluded to combine cooperatively chemical concoctions from carry-on containers, liquids of all ilks are banned from airliner cabins. And, to add to the inconvenience of the traveling public, electronic devices that could conceivably communicate to blow a bomb-brew are barred from being on board.

Is it possible that the terrorists are training our transportation security twerps, rather than them being pro-active protectors. The Bush administration is only a reactive force in the war on terror. If the new security measures are necessary today, they were needed 5 years ago when it was realized that airline safety begins at boarding. If prognostication was an ability of politicos, security measures to prevent creation of chemical bombs would have been in place long before now. The malignant Muslim murderers would not have schemed the secretion of salacious solutions suitable for sending souls to seraphic spaces. Do you feel any safer today than you did yesterday or yesteryear?

Next thing you know, airline passengers will be subject to urine tests, stomach pumpings, cavity searches and spectroscopic screening to insure the improbability of spontaneous combustability. Bite my tongue! I hope the TSA doesn't think of this.