Originally Posted by HeathrowGuy
Fair enough, but my point still stands - effective security is objective in nature, universal in scope, and refrains from the use of idiosyncratic -isms to the maximum extent possible.
Furthermore, Al-Qaeda and its allies have moved away from using Middle Eastern people- so who should be subject to "profiling"? Black people like one of the 7/7 bombers? Young white men like al-Qaeda John Walker Lindh and homegrown terrorist Timothy McVeigh?
All reasonable points but it is time that we figure out some way to increase the odd of catching someone. Picking out someone who travels for business regularly for the last 25 years in random searches does not make us safer. We need to figure out a way of triaging people so the odds are in our favor not the terrorist. Suggestions?