Me too. Bless their hearts. They were probably terrified too and will never travel again.
This article pinpoints our situation. We should not tolerate the stupid discussions about profiling. We will profile and we will protect ourselves. If the left doesn't like it - they just don't like it. I don't like middle eastern men blowing up innocent people at their whim. I've never noticed the left caring whether I liked something or not.
Washington is broken, there is no fixing it, especially not in time to win a war on terror or provide any kind of security from attacks. The individual states should take back the power that they ceded to D.C. and we, in our respective states should insist upon it.
Our individual states should determine their immigration policies, secure their borders in cooperation with other states, States should determine their population policies, and have their own security measures in place. It's far easier to be effective in individual States than to hope in vain for something workable out of Washington.
Right now the demoncrats want to stall security legislation in favor of bringing to the floor a Federal hate crimes bill that is so vague it can cover anything and is not constitutional to begin with. Meanwhile the door is still open to people from terrorist countries, planes still land from Saudi Arabia with no idea of who is on board, and illegal immigration is costing tax payers 24 billion a year to provide them services, not to mention the 9 billion a year they send back home that could and should be used to stimulate our own economy.
We for sure have enough third world legal immigrants to cover those "jobs Americans won't do", we can place a reasonable working vistors plan in effect without having a run away invasion that forces Americans to learn a foreign language to get and keep a job in their own darned country. I'm for putting pressure on the States to do something, D.C. is a dead end and a waste of resources and time.