Recently, we ran a story covering some of the issues with flying safely, a real concern for those of us who live or visit Hawaii.

An excellent interview, well worth reading, with Israeli Airplane security expert Isaac Yeffet has just run here:

Among the highlights:

• American airport security is abysmal because it can’t think forward, only backwards. Thus we react to what happens but don’t plan for something to happen.
• Israeli secutiry agents who fail internal tests are fired the first time.
• Every passenger is personally interviewed before departure.
• Full body scanners are nearly useless, and therefore a great waste of money.

The biggest problem, of course, is that this fellow is not leading the TSA, and America is not implementing his, and Israel’s, proven techniques. And like most of the mess that is this country, there’s really not a damn thing thing any of us can do about it.