I mean, if you just look -- think about the global aviation system, you know, almost 2 million domestic passengers here in the United States, 100,000 flights a day, it is too big, too massive, and so the harsher the security apparatus is, the less flow we'll have for global economy, for tourism, for all the things that make the world today have flow, essentially.
Juliette Kayyem argues that overly harsh security measures could negatively impact the global economy and tourism.
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