Krauthammer fell back on the facile “let’s do what the Israelis do.”
OK. Let’s start assembling huge databases on American citizens, separating out the populace into the trustworthy, the less trustworthy, the untrustworthy and the unknown. Keeping in mind that, once you enter the untrustworthy, it is forever and you will have your junk felt, or even denied a ticket or visa altogether.
Because that is the choice: accepting dossiers or a scanner whose output is like a poor 2D version of an “Avatar” video of your junk.
I disagree with your take on this.
Dr. Krauthammer is pointing out that Political Correctness has taken us to a point where we have enormous bureaucracies, billions of dollars spent and it isn’t doing a darn thing to protect us.
Political correctness is tying us into a hand-wringing self-destructing pillar of ineptitude.
1. Islam with whom we are at war with.
(Muslims get x-rayed and searched.)
2. The rest of us.
(We just get on the plane.)
I like to keep things simple like the current
administration.
However, they screwed up (as usual) and mixed up 1 and 2.
I like the idea of a trusted traveler program, until I realize that the same people managing this mess would be managing THAT mess. In other words, I don’t think they are competent enought to handle it. The only solution, really, would be to dissolve the TSA, and preferably the DHS, and rebuild it from the ground up.