Perhaps TSA should keep a supply of hospital gowns to cover naked terrorists rampaging about the airport.

Interesting solution, but the problem isn't that they'd be naked. The
problem is that they'd've entered the sterile area, albeit unarmed
(which was the point of being naked). We'd still close down the airport
and re-screen everyone. Do this once a day at a different airport, at a
time which fits a pattern that is revealed later and then changed.

This assumes equal willingness of young Arab males and older German females to be mass murderers.

Perhaps. But don't underestimate the ability of ideas to cross
boundaries. There is nothing particularly Arab about this whole thing -
there are plenty of other groups (including Good Christians) which do
horrible things to each other in the name of some deity or another.
There are Americans on trial right now for participating in terrorist
activities related to 9-11, and there are plenty of people who "fit the
profile" who have =nothing= to do with 9-11 or terrorism. Fueling
hatred by profiling is an act of destruction in itself, and costs lives.

how do you explain the fact that despite numerous attempts the terrorists have been unable to kill anyone else in this country since 9/11?

Ever since 9-11 I have been eating yoghurt and fruit for breakfast, and
I believe that this has kept the terrorists at bay. Not one attack has
succeeded since I have been doing this.

Seriously, the Osama attacks are carefully planned over the course of
many many years - they are not impulse actions. We may have made it
more difficult to accomplish a certain kind of action, but we've also
made it more difficult to thwart it should it occur. I'm not sure this
is progress, and I think the costs to our freedoms outweigh the dubious
benefits provided by "security".

It is the nature of an open society that it is vulnerable. It ceases to
be an open society long before it ceases to be vulnerable. Profiling is
just one way this happens.

Jose
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