Airline Security
1st January 2010
The Israeli system is obviously safer than ours, but we can’t adopt it. Why? Because it consists essentially of profiling. Sure, it’s mostly behavior profiling, but here in the U.S. it is unacceptable to say publicly that a young Muslim man traveling light, for no apparent purpose, who answers questions vaguely and nervously, is suspicious. We couldn’t even send the traveling imams on their way without cash reparations. Another way of putting the difference between the Israelis and us is that they are serious and we aren’t.