Well just out of curiosity what would you do? Who would you profile? Would you keep every Arab-looking person off the plane? What defines Arab-looking? What about Asians? The largest Muslim country in the world is Indonesia. Think that keeping all Asians and Arab-looking guys off will do it? How about also banning every person with a British passport since the main source of terrorists seem to be from England these days? You think that would work? You tell me who to profile and what the percent chance you give it of succeeding. And why you think that will work better than what I suggested.
Terrorists exploit weakness. The weakness of profiling only dark-skinned men is that white men get through. And white women.
Richard Reid, the shoe bomber, is a white man. If the TSA focuses only on brown men, then the terrorist recruiters have everybody else as a potential pool of candidates.
I hear the same argument from others here. fine, just let the bulk go thru and we all will have to accept the consequences be it attacks or economicimpact or social upheaval.
side note, As long as we allow madrassas and mosques and universities to act as feeder/breeder factories, you may well be right, eventually profiling will yield little results, 'til then, to discount it as one of the tools to be used seems only to invite more attacks , not lessen the danger.
I have a sneaking feeling profiling is used , just not advertised as such. Thanks for bumping up the thread.