Air scare

The feds have finally figured out that we were reeaally lucky on Christmas Day, when an al Qaida stooge tried to blow an airliner out of the sky.

And now they are trying to figure out how to stop the next attack -- and of course there will be a next attack.

The prez himself said, said, “We have to do better and we will do better and we have to do it quickly.”

So as the brain trust at Homeland Security, the FBI, the CIA, etc. try to conjure up how to "do better," here's my suggestion:

Let's do what we are already supposed to do.

As in, searching people or luggage that look suspicious.

Being alert for travelers who pay cash for one-way tickets with no luggage.

And putting people on watch lists when we get solid information that they should be on watch lists.

If we do these things -- basic precautions we were supposed to taking all along -- we'll be a lot safer.

If the experts want to dream up new tricks, I'm all for it.

But if the new regs are occasionally ignored like the old regs, our luck won't hold out.