House of Eratosthenes

Hat tip to Michelle Malkin for this story in the Washington Post. Air Marshalls are no longer being required to dress as, you know, um, Air Marshalls.

People who called this the “Kill Me First” policy are gleefully cheering that “Kill Me First is dead,” as Malkin headlined the story. People who didn’t call it that, i.e., public relations folks, say the reversal simply “broadens the scope” of the dress code.

The issue of what the marshals wear when flying on jetliners put a wrinkle in the public relations image of the Department of Homeland Security last year.

The 24,000-member Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association protested that the dress code could blow the cover of air marshals, making it easier for terrorists to identify them. Department officials said the concerns were overblown.

Accounts vary on what the air marshals were ordered to wear, but the department apparently wanted them to project a professional image, and some agents believed they were being forced into suit coats, ties and dress shoes. Officials said the policy did not require coats and ties.

A sense of perspective is needed on this. With my limited knowledge as a civie, I see no reason to regard the enemy with which we are engaged, as anything but extraordinarily cunning and resourceful. Sure they screw up. Their bombs go off twelve hours late because they set them to p.m. instead of a.m. They put insufficient postage on their bomb parcels and blow themselves up, almost like Yosemite Sam, when the packages come back. But they also do smart things; and they get lucky.

I don’t give a rat’s rear end what we were requiring the Air Marshalls to wear. If it was a government dress code, if I’m a terrorist and I get a year or two to sync up to what’s going on, I’ll be able to pick ’em out and train low-ranking people to do the same.

Thus, I didn’t like Kill Me First because it wasn’t consistent with a Homeland Security department that really meant business. The symptom has now been mitigated; is the underlying sickness really gone?

Time will tell.

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