you wee not abrupt at all, I was never in the service and like to take a position that gets more information out in the open. I am sure the books you recommend are great reads on the topics, but I am up to my eyeballs in alligators and they are draining the swamp. My wife does work in airline/airport/homeland security and I have actually done some engineering work in explosive detection systems for a company selling systems to the FAA.
But as you said it is subjective, but the point is our goal is not to target anyone buthe bad guys.
So that we don't profile I think we should now go out and look into the people at the Baptist churches in case they have people there planning on bombing any of our trains or subways, you can never tell about those Baptists, heck in tht case the Budists too...lol
And don't forget the Amish.
;-/