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Israeli Airport Security

Steve Clemons has a useful post about GOP demands for Israeli-style airport security in place of the TSA’s strip-‘n’-grope regime. Not only would it be more expensive than TARP, and quite probably impractical, but as Stephen Walt writes to Clemons, there’s a bigger question going unaddressed here: Am I the only person who sees the […]

Steve Clemons has a useful post about GOP demands for Israeli-style airport security in place of the TSA’s strip-‘n’-grope regime. Not only would it be more expensive than TARP, and quite probably impractical, but as Stephen Walt writes to Clemons, there’s a bigger question going unaddressed here:

Am I the only person who sees the irony in the recommendation that the US adopt the Israeli approach to airline security? The proper question to ask is: why do we suddenly need greater airport security?

Could it be because we’ve gradually adopted Israel’s approach to the Middle East too?

It’s not only TSA policy that needs to change.

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