The Bobster
Senior News Editor since 2004
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N.Y. Times: Bush Should Have Used Racial Profiling to Prevent 9/11
Don't look now, but the oh so politically correct New York Times has just endorsed racial profiling as a critical tool in fighting the war on terrorism.
In fact, says the Times, if only President Bush had ordered airports to use "threat profiling" to screen out suspected Muslim terrorists after receiving a CIA warning in August 2001 that al-Qaida was preparing to hijack U.S. airplanes, the 9/11 attacks might have been prevented.
"After rece
ving that briefing memo entitled 'Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.'," says the Times in Monday's lead editorial, Bush should have departed from his vacation in Crawford, Texas, and &q
uot
rushed back to the White House, assembled all his top advisers and demanded
to know what, in particular, was being done to screen airline passengers to make sure people who fit the airlines' threat profiles were being prevented from boarding American planes."
Of course, since all the terrorists mentioned in the August CIA memo were Middle Eastern radical Muslims, passengers of Middle Eastern appearance would have "fit the airlines' threat profile."
Hence, under the Times plan, Muslims by the thousands would have been yanked from airport ticket lines for thorough investigation.
But there's a reason that, even after 9/11, anti-terrorist racial profiling is verboten. It's because newspapers like the Times have spent the last 20 years demonizing law en
forcement officials who even hint that racial profiling can be an effective way of ferreting out the bad guys.
The anti-profiling taboo has gone so far that often the Times and other like
-min
ded
news outlet
s will leave race out of the mix when describing a criminal suspect who's on the loose.
Alas, had
the Times and its brethren not gone off the deep end on racial profiling, perhaps a sensible profiling program would have been in place at Boston's Logan Airport on the morning of 9/11.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/4/12/120947.shtml
N.Y. Times: Bush Should Have Used Racial Profiling to Prevent 9/11
Don't look now, but the oh so politically correct New York Times has just endorsed racial profiling as a critical tool in fighting the war on terrorism.
In fact, says the Times, if only President Bush had ordered airports to use "threat profiling" to screen out suspected Muslim terrorists after receiving a CIA warning in August 2001 that al-Qaida was preparing to hijack U.S. airplanes, the 9/11 attacks might have been prevented.
"After rece
ving that briefing memo entitled 'Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.'," says the Times in Monday's lead editorial, Bush should have departed from his vacation in Crawford, Texas, and &q
uot
rushed back to the White House, assembled all his top advisers and demanded
to know what, in particular, was being done to screen airline passengers to make sure people who fit the airlines' threat profiles were being prevented from boarding American planes."
Of course, since all the terrorists mentioned in the August CIA memo were Middle Eastern radical Muslims, passengers of Middle Eastern appearance would have "fit the airlines' threat profile."
Hence, under the Times plan, Muslims by the thousands would have been yanked from airport ticket lines for thorough investigation.
But there's a reason that, even after 9/11, anti-terrorist racial profiling is verboten. It's because newspapers like the Times have spent the last 20 years demonizing law en
forcement officials who even hint that racial profiling can be an effective way of ferreting out the bad guys.
The anti-profiling taboo has gone so far that often the Times and other like
-min
ded
news outlet
s will leave race out of the mix when describing a criminal suspect who's on the loose.
Alas, had
the Times and its brethren not gone off the deep end on racial profiling, perhaps a sensible profiling program would have been in place at Boston's Logan Airport on the morning of 9/11.