It's my opinion that everyone deserves, and deserved, a greater degree of protection than has been afforded to them.

Confiscating nail clippers is not my idea of protection - it is merely a gesture.

An airline is an airline, not an international intelligence agency with suspected terrorist profiles and data at its fingertips. An airline does not keep suspected terrorists under surveillance as do some intelligence agencies.

So, in response to the question, "are airlines to blame...?", my answer is, not in my opinion.