The Western World refuses to follow logic and practice "profiling", which can be summed up as: not all Muslims are terrorists, but at least 99% of terrorists are Muslims.
So instead, they adopt a particularly out of place and perverse "equality" principle: anybody can be a threat, so everybody has to be searched, patted, groped. Kids, old folks.
The TSA has lost sight of who the enemy is, of whence is the threat coming from. They take it out on regular folks. Instead of protecting them, they torture them. The video below just makes my blood boil: