Monday, January 4, 2010

Let's profile and save lives

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If there had been some common-sense profiling at the Amsterdam airport when Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab got in line for a flight to Detroit, officials would have found the detonator stuffed in his underwear and that would have been the end of the story -- no last minute heroism required by passengers, no possibility of hundreds dead... [snip]

Saving lives is what it's about, of course, and that's what the Army failed to do in the case of Maj. Nidal Malik Hassan, who announced his jihadist fanaticism to just about anyone who would listen but was apparently left alone because officials thought it would be unseemly to kick a Muslim out of the Army. He shot 13 people to death at Fort Hood.

Political correctness can be deadly.

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