RichieLion, I'm 100% with you on this one. Right at this minute I'm at the Admiral's Club at Tokyo's Narita Airport waiting for a flight home from a business trip. Unfortunately, what you notice here in Japan, and in Taiwan and Korea, is that these Asian countries seem to always follow the US model. When the US decided to ban liquids (ridiculous in my opinion), the Asian countries I travel to all did the same the very next day! Many times I have experienced the Israeli method of screening passengers, and it's quite interesting. Yes, they definitely profile terrorists. It's ridiculous to think that the TSA can "protect" us without profiling terrorists. Every passenger getting on an Israeli airplane goes through an interview, sometime more than one, with a no-nonsense, professional interviewer who asks very direct questions (politely, but directly) which require you answer directly. The eye contact is scary, actually. It feels intrusive, but there are no personal questions that I can remember. Mostly questions concerning what do you do, where have you been, where are you going, are you nervous, etc. You would have to be well trained to get by those guys. I really wish the US would pay attention to the Israelis on this, but due to the "profiling issue" our government is afraid. I think political correctness will cost US lives in the long run, and I'm not happy about it. That's it for me - any more comments and we'll get sent to Political!
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