"It is mindboggling for us Israelis to look at what happens in North America, because we went through this 50 years ago," said Rafi Sela, the president of AR Challenges, a global transportation security consultancy. He's worked with the RCMP, the U.S. Navy Seals and airports around the world.
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Yup... US gets it completely wrong.
Then again, this way we have capital hill shills porkbarelling companies they represent, which makes money for him, but does nothing for our safety. Another way to say this is that a government official puts his personal profits ahead of protecting citizens he's supposed to be protecting.
The only problem with the Israeli model is that it's not only effective, it doesn't have a huge monetary profit center associated with it. Also, changing to it now, nine years later, would be an admission that what's been done for the last nine years is completely effective.
Consider also, the TSA has not stopped one terrorist, located one bomb, done a single thing to make us safer. What has stopped terrorists? Answer: Passengers. But, rather than treat us as an asset, the government demonstrates it feels we're all guilty until proven innocent by "security" that has received little more training than the average mall security guard (no exaggeration!).
Bruce Schneier has said that only two things have made us safer: Improved cockpit doors, and passenger awareness. This 2nd part plays in again, here: Previous to 9/11 passengers were passive, they knew that whatever happened that negotiators would eventually get them released. 9/11 we see that hostage situations are no longer about negotiations and even passengers on flight 93 revolted and kept that plane from reaching its intended target.
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