Keller @ Large: Make Airport Security A Priority

BOSTON (CBS) - One of the most discouraging aspects of the horrific attacks on our country on September 11, 2001 was what we learned afterwards about the many unheeded warnings about the potential for such an assault and the gaps in our homeland security.

Here in Boston, Logan Airport and airline officials were warned by their own experts of problems with security, but were essentially ignored.

Afterwards, everyone vowed to never let it happen again. But the toxic brew of incompetence and sheer dereliction of duty by too many of those in charge of our security *has* happened again.

The inspector general of the TSA told a Congressional committee this week that layers of aviation security are "simply missing."

And last month that same inspector general, trying to put a positive spin on the security debacle said he was "hopeful that the days of TSA sweeping its problems under the rug… are coming to an end." Fourteen years after 9/11 and we're "hopeful" they're going to start doing their job properly?

Are you kidding me?

As always, in addition to decrying bureaucratic inertia and governmental ineptitude, we should ask ourselves some hard questions as well.

Are we so obsessed with comfort and convenience that we're willing to roll the dice?

Do we have memories so short that we can't recall the consequences of this neglect?

Are we so naïve that we think ISIS or any other savages can't get at us if they want to?

Let's hope those questions get asked, and the answers turn out better than they have so far.

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