Are Efforts to Reduce Terrorism Successful?

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Are Efforts to Reduce Terrorism Successful? | Racial Profiling Reduces Terrorism

In addition to being a regular contributor to the National Review, Richard Lowry is the author of Legacy: Paying the Price for the Clinton Years.

Political correctness threatens to make obsolete one of America’s most valuable terrorist-fighting tools: racial profiling. Because it is primarily Islamic Arabs who commit terrorist acts against the United States, they should be scrutinized over other ethnic groups. Such ethnic profiling is not a matter of discrimination; it is simply common-sense security. Current profiling systems that do not take into account...

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