Originally Posted by DMorris
The upside to all of this - Bush and co. have brought the fight to the enemy and radical islamists are being killed on a daily basis.
Except that it appears they're recruiting at a greater rate than they're being killed. Your comment would be laughable if our lives weren't being put at risk by poor government policy, strategy and tactics at home and abroad.
Going into Afghanistan was "bringing the fight to them." Doing a half-a$$ job, letting the bad guys get away and then rushing into an unrelated country which boosted anti-American sentiment and increased terrorist recruiting is putting us at more risk, not less.
The recommendations combine computerized profiling of all airline passengers and high-technology detection devices -- measures designed to address the changing and increasing threat of terrorism.
This profiling stuff is garbage. All it's going to do (and has been doing for years) is jerk around a lot of innocent people, but do nothing to catch bad guys.
Keep
real weapons off planes, have secure cockpit doors and informed pax/crew and we're all set. Do a search in this forum for "secure flight" or "CAPPS II" for plenty of discussion on the topic.