So let me get this right; the USA has to go to war because it has no confidence in it's own rules? Is that right? Then why the rules at all?

Post 9 11 there were safe guards put in place; one was the "No Fly List." 

The West's media is all a flutter about the fact their citizens are leaving to join the jihadist movement originating in Syria. Either the safe guards work or they don't. 

Currently, airline passengers are complaining about the process of the "No Fly List." Do the governments believe they can make flying more convenient or more difficult in the face of their new concerns?

Unlikely Terrorists on "No Fly List" (click here)

August 20, 2014
Changes planned on how travelers can protest placement on no-fly list (click here)

The Obama administration is promising to change the way travelers can ask to be removed from its no-fly list of suspected terrorists banned from air travel.

The decision comes after a federal judge's ruling that there was no meaningful way to challenge the designation, a situation deemed unconstitutional. In response, the Justice Department said the U.S. will change the process during the next six months. As of late last summer, about 48,000 people were on the no-fly list.

The government's policy is never to confirm or deny that a person actually is on the no-fly list, citing national security concerns. In many of these cases, travelers assume they are on the list because they are instructed to go through additional screening at airports or because they are told they can't board their flights to, from or within the United States....

Customs and Border Protection officers must admit U.S. citizens, even if they visited such 'restricted' countries as Cuba or North Korea (click here)

March 14, 2012

Q: I am a U.S. citizen. On return from a recent vacation in Yemen, a Customs and Border Protection officer asked me about why I was abroad for so long. Since I am a U.S. citizen, can't I stay abroad as long as I wish?

Khalil Mohamed Alkaifi, Staten Island

A. You are correct. As a U.S. citizen, you can stay abroad for as long as you wish and always have the right to return. CBP officers must admit a U.S. citizen. That’s true even if you were to visit a country where U.S. law restricts travel, such as North Korea or Cuba.

Unlike permanent residents, U.S. citizens need not maintain a residence in the United States.

At one time a naturalized U.S. citizen had to maintain U.S. residence for a certain period after naturalizing. No longer. Congress repealed those laws. You could stay abroad for the rest of your life and remain a U.S. citizen....