Airline passengers walk into a security checkpoint inside Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington. Photo AFPFlying High -- Christopher Hitchens, Slate
Why are we so bad at detecting the guilty and so good at collective punishment of the innocent?
It's getting to the point where the twin news stories more or less write themselves. No sooner is the fanatical and homicidal Muslim arrested than it turns out that he (it won't be long until it is also she) has been known to the authorities for a long time. But somehow the watch list, the tipoff, the many worried reports from colleagues and relatives, the placing of the name on a "central repository of information" don't prevent the suspect from boarding a plane, changing planes, or bringing whatever he cares to bring onto a plane. This is now a tradition that stretches back to several of the murderers who boarded civilian aircraft on Sept. 11, 2001, having called attention to themselves by either a) being on watch lists already or b) weird behavior at heartland American flight schools. They didn't even bother to change their names.
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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials
Questions on Why the Suspect Wasn't Stopped -- Lipton & Shane, NY Times
Absurd flight from reality -- Charles Hurt, New York Post
Stop Punishing Fliers -- Tunku Varadarajan, The Daily Beast
Whether it's AQ or not, nobody in Arab media cares -- Marc Lynch, Foreign Policy
Detroit plane fiasco shows $50B intelligence machine is NOT working -- Richard Sisk, New York Daily News
Detroit near-miss exposes big holes in security shield -- New York Daily News editorial
Post-9/11 security systems fail to connect dots — again -- USA Today editorial
The Iranian government is out of control -- Ali Ansari, The Independent
Tehran's Biggest Fear -- Selig Harrison, New York Times
The Start of an Iranian Intifada -- Meir Javedanfar, Tehran Bureau
U.S. Titanic debt -- Chicago Tribune editorial
Blood Diamonds Are Back -- Greg Campbell, Foreign Policy
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