Exactly right. The 100 million or so muslims who want to destroy the west are laughing themselves silly at what we’ve done.
I’m infuriated every time I go through an airport screening and see the BILLIONS of wasted manhours and tens of BILLIONs of wasted dollars. This is an enormous drag on our economy and I wouldn’t be surprised to see this knocking down our economic recovery.
The ex-director of security at the Ben Gurion airport in Israel was on Fox this morning and says we are doing it all wrong. We need to focus on the intentions of people and their behavior rather than on the things they are carrying. But neither he nor the Fox interviewer would come out and say the word “muslim” — even they were too pussified to name the enemy causing all this waste and mayhem in the US. The Fox woman said something like “Wouldn’t your approach offend ‘some people’ “ or somesuch.
We are WAY past worrying about offending muslims and I’ll be 80% of the country believes the same. Yet we continue to bend over backwards for fear of offending their precious sensibilities. That the U.S. has degenerated to this is appalling.
I hope one of the first things a President Palin does is to subcontract this to the Israelis. Oh the p*ss’n and moan’n among the moose, but the skies will get a lot friendlier in an instant.
“We need to focus on the intentions of people and their behavior”
Glad you brought this up. We focus on the WRONG END of the terrorism spectrum. I lived in the Middle East and have flown into and out of both Israel and Jordan. No hysteria there—just law enforcement intensely focused on behavior, mannerisms, body language, and I’m sure a memorized image of the bad guys. As you pass the checkpoint from Jordan to Israel, you get on a bus. Israeli security gets on that bus and looks each and every passenger in the face and “studies” them. It’s quite intimidating. Even as an American, my heart was beating pretty fast and loudly. They don’t mess around—they mean business.