The quotation is taken from a long article, and it is not the editorial position of the NYT. Nonetheless, it would be reassuring if we were serious about security instead of serious about making impressions of politically correct security:
'Some officials with security firms said airport security in the United States might, in truth, need to follow the example of Ben-Gurion Airport, which makes no secret of singling out Arab passengers for greater scrutiny. In the security world, the practice is known euphemistically as "behavioral profiling," but Mr. Livingstone said it was mostly about ethnicity and playing the odds.
'"Ethnicity is the single most important determinant of who is going to cause a problem on an airplane," he said. "If you are going to give the same attention, because it is mandated, to a little old lady with blue hair, or to a young African-American male, for that matter, as you give to a Middle Easterner, you are undermining the system already."'
Hat tip to James Taranto in the WSJ.
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