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You are far overestimating how good detectors and searching is.

No, I'm not, which is why I'm doing all the other stuff, too.

They are already doing all your suggestions, so I guess you are happy with them.

Yeah, actually, I think a lot of what the TSA does is completely reasonable and, when executed properly, effective. The fact that some policies are stupid theater does not mean all are.

Profiling is effective. Israel does it.

The United States isn't Israel, we have extremists of all colors and creeds, and terrorist acts here by any one group are rare enough that particular instances can't really be taken as indicators of who will be exclusively trying to do it in the future.



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