Originally Posted by
gojirasan
Have you ever been outside the US? The US is the only country I have been to that doesn't have the concept of transit and treats every arriving passenger as a potential immigrant who requires an overpriced visa, a convincing story, and a bit of quickie sex with a government employee just to make it to another airport. Maybe the concept of transit is too complex for Americans? Maybe we have become too inbred over the years or something. For whatever reason we seem to suffer from extreme mental retardation when it comes to anything involving travel or security, and hell, probably just in general. My dog could probably think up a better system than what we have now.
I have been outside the US. However, the times I've been to Europe, my point of entry has always been my final destination so I've always had to collect bags upon landing anyways, I've never had to transit through a European airport (except FRA on a TXL-FRA-ORD flight, but obviously then bags weren't an issue).
Anyways, now that I think of it, if you were to allow passengers flying US-EU Airport-Another EU Airport to connect without rescreening, you're trusting the TSA's screening for the EU-EU leg of the flight. If you were in charge of making all security related decisions at EU airports, would you trust the TSA? Didn't think so. I can't fault them for rescreening people.