Benoit, political correctness had nothing to do with the shoe bomber being allowed on the plane. He was profiled and checked and rechecked. The fact that they did a bad job of it has nothing to do with political correctness unless one feels that all people of Arab ethnicity, or people who could be confused as being of Arab ethnicity based on their looks, should be legitimately refused to board.



[This message has been edited by Mvic (edited 12-31-2001).]