David Frum poses the titular question, asking:
Admittedly, this is probably an apocryphal story – and double admittedly I may be remembering it wrong. But the yarn goes that one day in 1954, Henry Luce was lunching with the editors of Time magazine and announced: “I’m bored with anticommunism.” Reading the intensifying round of complaints about the TSA’s practices, I’m left wondering: Is America now bored with antiterrorism?
Bored? No. Fed up with pointless, vastly expensive, perpetually getting worse, time wasting, privacy invading, soon to be anal probing security theater? Yes.