Terrorists are by and large muppets, they operate on inadequate budgets, they plan badly, they execute inconsistently.<p>The only reason they succeed is becomes on infrequent occasions law enforcement is even more incompetent.<p>The 9&#x2F;11 attacks had many, <i>many</i> red flag warnings before they went down that were largely ignored. What&#x27;s so unusual about people training to fly planes, but not take off or land, right?<p>The same patterns will be found here in hindsight.<p>Deep, pervasive surveillance will only flood already saturated information channels. What they need is less information of a higher quality, not more noise in the system.