Bruce Schneier has a great take on my (and, it seems, every other person's out there) El-Al thinking - it doesn't scale.

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/01/adopting_the_is.html

I wonder if there isn't a happy medium between the two, though? Hmm.

My original post:
http://jmahony.posterous.com/attempted-airline-bombing-security-theatre-fr