[Tamar1973]

In other words this "racial" profiling just suddenly started without reason...

If we get too tied up in racial profiling, the bad guys can easily get around that by recruiting people who don't fit the stereotype. They're doing it in Chechnya quite sucessfully, from what I've read.

[Gaffer]

I don't see a problem with the (even if it is almost non-existent) profiling because it would be better than staying blind to telltale factors. Regardless of whether they can recruit nontraditionals, keeping an eye on the traditionals while also spending the resources in finding the non-traditionals would still net terrorists still trying to slip through.

During the cold war, the US was always evolving and advancing their technology, especially in ECM and radar technology. The Russians did this too, but they also never threw anything away. The low frequency radars from the 50s became the stealth hunters in the 90s. The US? They dropped much of that in the 70s and 80s.....

[Neophyte]

If we get too tied up in racial profiling, the bad guys can easily get around that by recruiting people who don't fit the stereotype. They're doing it in Chechnya quite sucessfully, from what I've read.

It is because Chechnya is part of Russia. In Russia, you can cheaply hire someone for literally anything - human life is the sheapest possible commodity there.

For instance, in the book "The Osama bin Laden I know" one of OBL's closest aids mentiones an passan that his master left Afghanistan for Sudan by a jet with a Russian pilot... and that had happend when the Russians were still fighting in Afghanistan.