<...Racial profiling simply won't work.

Obviously, any form of generalization when you are dealing with people can leave you open to mistakes, and given our current political environment, the very term "profiling" makes us defensive.

On the other hand, I took a quick look here and here.

I ain't seeing a lot of Norwegians here, folks.

Look, if this terrorism had been traced to the Mau Maus*, we'd be looking for African Americans. If the KKK had been doing it, we wouldn't be looking for anyone except white guys. Face it, some stuff is just plain related to a specific ethnic group, and there is no way to get around it.

We laugh at the Chinese here, and I would support NO government actions along this line in our own country--with the possible exception of tightening our borders--but the hard fact is that the Chinese are decreasing their chances of terrorism by doing this.

*no longer active as far as I know