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The difference between us and El Al, is that they profile terrorists and not people. Racial and ethnicity plays a part but that's not all of it. I think our TSA should be trained by El Al.

"I think our TSA should be trained by El Al."

There is no doubt that El Al security is much better than our TSA. Even if our TSA were to be trained by El Al, it is likely that our security system would be much worse. We fly many more airplanes at many more airports than does El Al, and our civil rights laws impede our ability to profile folks by race, creed, sex, or religion.

I am not saying that TSA is perfect. In many cases I find them silly, inefficient, and lax. But the rules and regulations are made by men and women, not by Gods and thus are necessarily flawed.

We, as travelers, should continue to complain about those things that annoy us about the TSA and the powers that be at homeland security should continue to try to respond to our complaints and suggestions and make our system better.

Given the competing and conflicting demands of time, cost, privacy, and safety, the system will never satisfy everyone. I used to be very annoyed when I used to be searched at the check point and then searched again at the gate. Thank heavens they are not searching at the gate any longer.