Originally Posted by Locobot

Why would "arab muslims" skipping the landing portion of flight training raise any more red flags than people of other races and religions doing the same? Was this ever a cause for alarm before 9/11? Is there evidence that non-arab non-muslim flight students skipped the landing and were investigated for it? Would ethnic profiling have prevented the Oklahoma City bombing or the Atlanta Olympics bombing? It's not satisfactory to me to prevent one type of terrorist by becoming more vulnerable to another type of terrorist.