1) He sympathises with them? Left-wingers delight in reducing people to the status of things.

2) How many explosives have been found by pat-down?

3) How many old blue-eyed women have ever been found to have hidden explosives on their person? How many children?

...until they (hopefully soon!) find a better way to screen passengers.

This reminds me former Sec. of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's response to a soldier's complaint about inadequate armor-protection early in the most recent Iraq war. "You go to war with the army you have, not the army you WISH you had...", he said.

Eventually the armor deficiency was largely solved. Let's hope similar swift improvements can be made to our passenger-screening capabilites as well.

I work in the microchip industry, and there is NO WAY we can inspect every single chip we make, which is why our engineers use methods like statistical process control and others to streamline the inspection and testing procedures for microchips. Surely our airport security gurus can come up with better ways than fondling people or "uncovering their nakedness", as it were, to improve overall security.

Incidently, our foes, who make a huge deal of clothing and covering themselves up--especially their women--no doubt perceive (and enjoy) our humiliation even more than we do!