Originally Posted by TSORon

Mr. Peterson is correct, this is not a game. My apologies to you Mr. Peterson.

Here is the point I was trying to make. Poster SEAFFLYER presented 2 representations, one being terrorists and the other not. My point by linking the article I did is that there is no way to tell who is and who is not. None what-so-ever. The young man in the article was a young Asian male, but with his disguise in place he looks like a little old white male. He could just as easily have appeared to be a female, black, middle eastern, or any other type of person under the sun.

So based on this it’s clear that profiling is a useless exercise. OBL himself could appear to be to be your great aunts sister, brother, mother, or even father, and with the technology and skill the young man in question was able to acquire OBL could get away with it.

One system, one measure, one approach, is not going to work to stop those who wish to do harm to US citizens. ALL of them must be used. US citizens are the choice target of every terrorist organization on the planet (with one possible exception, do you know which organization I am speaking of?). No matter where we go we have a target painted on our backs the moment we let it slip where we come from. BTW, Israelis have it just as bad, but there are far fewer of them. The US Government would be remiss in its duties to its citizens if it did not provide the very best it could to prevent another major terrorist attack.

Many of you will say that it isn’t. Well, you are welcome to your opinion. I disagree, as does the vast majority of the public, as does the government, as do the vast majority of the recognized experts in the field. Some don’t, but that is opinion as well. It’s all opinion. But the proof is in the pudding, right? So the only relevant question is, if the government is doing such a poor job of providing a safer environment for commercial aviation in our country then why has there been no major follow-on attacks against US commercial aviation targets since the events of 9/11/2001?