Profile, but pay

The harsh reality is that racial profiling may be necessary if security is to be reasonably effective and efficient. Yet it is regrettable that such profiling burdens innocent members of the targeted group. One answer is to compensate people subjected to abnormally intense security. That could be done in a variety of ways, anything from cash payments to free airline miles. For the sake of national security, Arab-American travellers should be willing to undergo greater scrutiny than the general population. And the rest of America should be willing to pay them for their trouble.