Profiling?

Given the current security scare, the airlines are using profiling to exclude certain people from flying as potential risks. For example, they are targeting people having dark skin, who grew up in a Muslim country, such as Indonesia, and who have a Muslim name, such as Hussein. As a result, President Barack Obama would not be allowed to board Air Force One and could not get on a US bound plane.
OK, that's a joke, but it shows how careful one has to be about profiling. But, in fact, if one wants to protect airplane security and save lives, then one must do profiling of passengers. That's it, there's no alternative!
All the fancy equipment, the whole body X-ray scanners and the chemical sniffing machines (gas chromatography) will not detect everything. It comes down to the human element, and since humans also are fallible, they need a clear directive of what to look for, i.e. profiling. But, maybe they shouldn't call it profiling, maybe an alternative is "individual terror threat assessment," to satisfy the legalities.
Now Pres. Obama is, of course, against profiling (see above), in addition to which he refuses to acknowledge that we are in a war with terrorism, but prefers to refer to "violent extremists" who happen to be in distant places like Yemen, Pakistan and Nigeria (yes, Hillary, there are Muslims in Nigeria).
Can a leader who does not admit publicly that there is a terrorist war against the USA, and only blames "distant" al Qaeda forces, lead the country in a war against the terrorists? Evidently not!
By the way, Head of the US Homeland Security Department, Janet Napolitano, cancelled her scheduled trip to Israel to learn how to do her job properly, but sent her senior aides instead. Maybe when they go back home they will know how to prevent a known listed Islamist, whose father had turned him in (a month before), and who was not on the US "no-fly" list, from boarding a US-bound plane. Or then again, maybe not.