Who is winning the war on terror?

Every time I am in an airport to get on to a plane, I can't help thinking that it is those damned terrorists who are winning the war :(
It was ridiculous when the TSA folks scanning the carry on luggage repeatedly scanned a pair of shoes of a passenger who was ahead of me.  All because that fancy pair had some kind of a strip in the sole's construction that was not visible to the naked eye, but was clear as hell in the scanner.  So, the line kept getting longer while two other agents came over to look at the image.
Oh well ....