re: #98 erik_t

Which has what to do with the fact that we’re talking about an American politician at an American airport finding fault with the American TSA?

Great, Israel has good airport security (depending on how you define ‘good’). Gold star for them. We should study what they do and see what lessons we would like to take away from it.

In the meantime, the American system seems constructed entirely to add new and obnoxious regulations and requirements, and this is idiotic, and I would really rather not “freakin deal with it and stop whining like a baby”. I would like to politely request that the Department of Homeland Fearmongering remove their collective head from their collective ass and work to create a system that strikes a reasonable and prudent balance between safety, efficiency and cost.

You made a statement that it’s an “incomplete methodology”. It’s not. It’s very complete, scientific and it works pretty much 100% of the time, but is not employed in our country. I don’t know if it should be done exactly the same way because we certainly don’t have the same issues as Israel, but I think where we lack mostly is in training, moreso than equipment - seems to me. I agree more could and should be done, but I’m willing to cut the DHS far more slack than you are.