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Originally posted by Not Me
That wasn't what was proposed. They didn't have the resources to investigate all students in flight schools. Pre-9/11, they did have the resources (according to journalists who quoted former FBI agents) to investigate all Arabs in flight schools but believed that would be racial profiling and so it wasn't done.
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Yes, I understand what you have said, but you are missing the point. We are 2.5 years too late to stop 9/11. The next attack may not involve hijacked airliners, or people who go to flight school just before committing that attack. So saying "we should engage in racial profiling" is not enough.