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TSA = Terrorism Stupidity? Apparently

I was all set to explain why the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) knee-jerk response to recent (and undoubtedly serious) terrorist activity is incredibly dumb. Texas in Africa beat me to it. I will just add that this silly (and almost sure not actually to make us any safer) policy will also assuredly damage relations with other parts of the world, including, and maybe especially, Nigeria.

 

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Derek Catsam

Derek Catsam is a Professor of history and Kathlyn Cosper Dunagan Professor in the Humanities at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin. He is also Senior Research Associate at Rhodes University. Derek writes about race and politics in the United States and Africa, sports, and terrorism. He is currently working on books on bus boycotts in the United States and South Africa in the 1940s and 1950s and on the 1981 South African Springbok rugby team's tour to the US. He is the author of three books, dozens of scholarly articles and reviews, and has published widely on current affairs in African, American, and European publications. He has lived, worked, and travelled extensively throughout southern Africa. He writes about politics, sports, travel, pop culture, and just about anything else that comes to mind.

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Africa; Zimbabwe; South Africa; Apartheid

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