[Age of Reason]

They'd still be happily letting the shoe bomber on, Richard Reid (for all of those living in a cave, he didn't have a drop of Middle Eastern or Arab blood in him).

No problem, we'll profile dirt bags with ponytails too.

(Sorry, but I still live in an Ozzie and Harriet Leave it to Beaver world, where a dad exchanges his suit jacket for a cardogan sweater on arriving home from the office, leaving his white shirt and tie on while sitting down to the dinner that mom made. And only the women have long hair--always.)

[John H K]

Reviewing the pictures of the 9/11 hijackers, many dress quite neatly, they shaved all their facial hair, of course, and many of them could easily pass for Italian, Greek, Armenian, etc.

Simply traveling under false names and passports would get them through. People need to stop kidding themselves that Arabs (or Muslims) for that matter have a big "A" or "M" branded on their forehead. There's no simplistic narrow profiling answer.