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"So now we find out that we have to have certified identification documents, and six other silly procedures "
That's the price we pay for having lost the 9/11 war to Al-Queda.
Which brings up an interesting book that every cruiser should tuck in their bag of "well, one day I'll need a lot of pages to read". "At Dawn We Slept", the short (800 pages?) version of a scholar's epic investigation and treatise on what really happened at Pearl Harbor. At the many mistakes made by both sides, and the way the Japanese "Victory" really wasn't a victory, but how easily it could have been. Even though it was a success far beyond their expectations.
Very much like the 9/11 attack, where nothing happened as expected or intended, and both sides attained both victory and defeat pretty much by accident. If you read the one (it's been in print for decades, any library should be able to turn one up or you can buy it cheaply used) and start to conpare and contrast to the other--it should remind every sailor that proper planning, and reaction, aren't easy. And being prepared to take the correct actions, essential when "shit happens" at sea.
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