Tired Of Hearing About Disrupted Travel Yet?

It's as though people have forgotten to be thankful that government anti-terror efforts thwarted a major attack that could have been worse than 9/11 and is taking extra precautions to ensure that the plot was actually stopped completely and that passengers are safe and have gone straight to being annoyed about travel delays.

Remember after 9/11 when we all said that we'd "never forget" and that we'd be "ever vigilant?" Those feelings have now apparently been trumped by exasperation over long, but temporary, delays at airport security.

Or, at least, that's the media's depiction of the situation. Rather than focusing on the positive aspects - the consensus should be that this was a major victory in the war on terror - the media seems more interested in focusing on the negative aspects. Like delayed travel. Probably because focusing on the positive aspects of the terror arrests would be a tacit admission that the war on terror is a success. Most of the media have invested so much into the idea of the Bush administration fumbling in the war on terror that they just can't let the public get the idea that some things are, in fact, working.