system does profile, in a sense. it considers all of us to be potential terrorists, whether we dress in taliban garb or a nun's habit. americans are outraged for good reason. we know the potential terrorists are, even if our government won't acknowledge that the threat comes from islamic extremists. of course, just as you mentioned a little while ago with the arrest of mr. mohamud in or again, a somali-born american citizen, he would indeed fit the profile of most of the people who have waged ter race tax, tried to or in indeed didn't succeed in launching terrorist attacks again the united states. the debate is not gonna go away. back to the israeli comparison again, it keeps coming up in all of the editorials and all of the op-ed pieces. just -- just a few figures to