[Beck_isright]

The airlines strongly opposed profiling because they "feared" it would cause lawsuits from potential customers. Please refer to post #182. They had a chance in 1998 to reform and instead of investing in infrastructure and cooperating with the FAA, FBI, CIA, etc., they elected to increase pay for employees, executive bonuses, and bribes to Congress to prevent implementation of any of these suggestions. Sorry, I'm not letting them off the hook. You can, that's your call. But if a corporation or an individual fails to take preventative action that could avert a disaster then they should be held responsible.

[MonroeDNA]

You dude, you have a friend here.

Give it to them good!

[sinkspur]

The airlines strongly opposed profiling because they "feared" it would cause lawsuits from potential customers.

And the government didn't?

If you think Bill Clinton's FAA would have profiled at airline gates, you're dreaming.

So, Arabs were allowed by the FAA, and boxcutters were allowed by the FAA. Tell me where the airlines screwed up.

If the airlines had profiled to the point of keeping these Arabs off planes, you would be at the head of the line bitching and bellyaching about Americans losing their rights.

[honway]

cooperating with the FAA, FBI, CIA, etc.,

What fantasy world are you living in? Khalid Mohammed was the mastermind of the Middle Eastern participation in the OKC bombing. The FBI covered up the participation of John Doe 2 a.k.a. Hussein Al Hussaini and his other Middle Eastern participants including Khalid in the OKC bombing and now you want to point the finger of responsibility at airlines for a national security failure?

Absent the FBI cover up of the Middle Eastern participation in OKC, 9-11 would be just another date on the calender, because the War on Terror would have started on April 19,1995.

I guess you are in the "public" sector.