Originally Posted by LuvAirFrance

I reject the concept that it is "harrassment" to thoroughly screen someone who could easily be a bomb carrier. As for the "insignificance" of the percentage, I am always asking myself why the overwhelming majority who are supposed to be against terror never speak up for their point of view. Don't start quoting the handful who have spoken up. I'm talking about the Muslim masses. They shouldn't, by their silence, be making the bombers their representatives. Actually it wasnt until Irish Catholics got sick of IRA bombers being given a pass that the peace process got underway in Ireland. Same is going to be true in the Middle East. The fact is that for every one white Christian who dies at the hands of these bombers, hundreds of Muslims die. We should be allies against them. It would be as if I was dead set against George Bush's illegal wars but kept silent because I hated the people against whom his wars were fought. A lot of people like me very vocal and active against Bush. I'd love to see that kind of rational impartiality among Muslims.

Anyway, it seems to me that if American authorities are going to fritter our money and their efforts away in a manner that makes a frontal attack on Americans' freedoms, then we have to rely on foreigners to do the unpopular things we refuse to do.