Comment Re:This is going to get ugly (Score 2) 228
On one hand, I understand their ham handed approach to national security after 9/11. It was like a fire department flooding a property to make sure the fire was out. People had and will have good justification for ridiculing their blunt instrument approach to airport security -- especially the randomness of it all. On the other hand, we have intelligent people with experience enough to know that x-ray devices and bag searches only give the illusion of security. While on a much smaller scale, look at what the Israeli's do. A very well trained security person looks deeply into your eyes and questions you. That's it. That's all it takes to give the green light or send up a red flag. And, when was the last time you heard about a hijacking in Israel? Screening passengers by observation techniques can't be thwarted, while technological safeguards can always be overcome.
As a Jew and married to an Israeli, I have a lot of firsthand knowledge about flying thru Ben-Gurion airport, and I agree 100% with the comments about Israeli security. Unfortunately, in the US that kind of security is called "profiling", and objected to even though we - rightly or wrongly - profile EVERYONE we come into contact with: it is called "first impression". Personally I think it is fine to profile people as one tool, but NOT OK to use that to discriminate against them.
