Our Security Strategy

Right now the United States' strategy to protect itself against flying terrorists is to frisk every passenger who boards an airline. Since there are 300 million Americans, let's call this a 300 million suspects strategy. An alternative would be to weed the list down a bit. Children and the very old can obviously be excluded, so that gets us down to about 150 million. We also know that these terrorists are predominantly young males, so we can halve that number to 75 million. And not to be insensitive or anything, aren't most of these terrorists Muslims? Now we are down to about 3 million people. And finally, if we look only at Muslims with recent connections to foreign countries, we are down to something less than 35,000 people. That's about the size of a small town in America. A platoon of Barney Fife's might even be able to handle that number. Ought not our highly trained and educated members of Homeland Security, the FBI, CIA, and the State Department be able to track this number of people, given the billions of dollars in resources we've made available to them? But instead, we get the 300 million suspect strategy, in which our best and brightest focus on people like this: I feel safer already. How about you?