The sad state of airport security

When India’s Minister for Civil Aviation can say with a straight face that India’s airports are more secure than US airports, I view that as a strong indictment of US security policy.

Anyone who has traveled through a major Indian airport must shake their head, though more at the chaos than the security. And it’s true that there haven’t been major recent security incidents there that I’m aware of.

But the US should be looking pretty hard at itself when claims like these are made openly.

(Comments are open, feel free to flame away.)

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