Profiling should be deemed acceptable under the circumstances of current and past events.

Muslim extremists committed the 1972 Munich Olympic Massacres; the 1979 U.S. Embassy takeover; the 1980's kidnappings in Lebanon; the 1983 U.S. Marine barracks bombing; the 1985 cruise ship Achille Lauro hijacking where terrorists murdered a crippled 69 year old American passenger by throwing him overboard; the 1985 TWA flight 847 hijacking in Athens resulting in the murder of a U.S. Navy officer; the 1998 Pan Am flight 103 bombings; the February 1993 WTC bombing; the 1998 bombing of the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania; the 9/11 hijacking of four airliners which were intentionally flown into buildings resulting in the murder of more than 3,000 Americans; the 2002 kidnapping and beheading of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl; the Beslan School hostage crisis which left 344 dead; the 2004 Madrid train bombings which left 192 dead; the 2005 London Underground bombings which left 50 dead; and the 2006 Bombay train bombings which left 200 dead. The common denominator in all these terrorist acts has been Muslim extremists between the ages of 18 and 40. Since we have limited resources at airports, it only makes sense to screen passengers who resemble the physical description of those who have committed almost 100% of airline terrorism acts during the last 20 years. It's absurd to suggest that law enforcement officials disregard physical appearance when attempting to screen airport passengers given the fact that 20 of the 20 hijackers in the 9/11 attacks fit the same physical description. Even the left-leaning New York Times has publicly endorsed racial profiling as a vital tool in the war on terror. In a lead editorial, the NY Times suggested the 9/11 attacks may have been prevented if airports had used "threat profiling" to screen out Muslim terrorists after receiving a CIA warning in August 2001 that al Qaeda was preparing to hijack U.S. airplanes. If terrorist profiling is racist, then evidently large majorities of Americans, including African Americans, are racist. A 2001 Gallup poll concluded that African-Americans are more likely than any racial or ethnic groups to support profiling and tight airport security checks for Arabs and Arab-Americans. The poll results, reported in the Boston Globe September 30, 2001, showed 71% of blacks vs. 57% of whites, believe Arabs and Arab-Americans should "undergo special, more intensive security checks before boarding airplanes." Since all of the 9/11 terrorists were Middle Eastern males, it's only logical to assume that paying more attention to Middle Eastern males opposed to 70 year-old Asian grandmothers is in the best national security interests of our country and overall safety for airline travels in general. Of course, when profiling for potential terrorists, if anyone else displays suspicious behavior such as being fidgety, nervous, or has indirect eye contact, then security should take extra precautions to screen those passengers, even if they don't resemble Middle Eastern males. The job of airport security should be to determine who are the most suspicious and likely potential terrorist threats. Common sense must transcend political correctness when it comes to screening airline passengers in an effort to ensure the safety and security of Americans. If the FBI received credible intelligence that 8 Middle Eastern males were planning to hijack 4 planes in the U.S. on a certain date, wouldn't it be reasonable to assume security would "profile" by checking all Middle Eastern males? Consider the alternative. If after receiving the same warning, security failed to "profile," but instead continued to just randomly search little old ladies, the likelihood of preventing the planned hijackings would be dramatically reduced since security checks would be "random" instead of specifically focused on Muslim males. "Thus, searches should not be 'random' but deliberate," wrote James Q. Wilson, Ronald Reagan Professor of Public Policy at Pepperdine University, and Heather Higgins, VP of the Independent Women's Forum, in a Wall Street Journal article. "The profile should not be based exclusively on race, but on hints, that is useful stereotypes based on judgments made by rational people...The more we study terrorists the more we will learn about them and the better our screening profiles, our stereotypes, will become. If we apply that knowledge, fewer innocent people will face any burden and more real terrorists will be caught. We will overcome slogans about 'racial profiling' and instead become a bit safer." If the government can sanction legalized discrimination (i.e. race based preferences) in the name of "diversity," then they can surely sanction consideration of race as one component of terrorist profiling in the name of national security.