Originally Posted by Land-of-Miles
I personally avoid any and all travel to the US these days unless it is absolutely essential, why risk a 3 hour queue, rude security staff and capricious decision making, unless absolutely necessary? I used to visit 3 or 4 times a year through choice on leisure trips, now I favour Canada or the Middle East instead.
Ditto
Originally Posted by Land-of-Miles
What irks me most of all is the pretence of a "special relationship" bewteen the UK and US, special enough to send 1000's or troops to Iraq to provide a figleaf of multinationalism, but not special enough to treat UK citizens as friends rather than potential enemies
Ah but that's when you'll get told that Richard Reid, the shoe bomber, is British and that we harbour terrorist supporters (cf. the clawed man from Finsbury Park Mosque that's so beloved of the
Daily Mail).
I'm not trying to make light of a serious issue here or be disrespectful of Americans' understandable desireto make their country safer. But I still can't fathom out how these measures will prevent the most determined terrorist from getting through (if they're not there already...)