Gig 601XL Builder wrote:

Well, we did have a bunch of non-US citizens train to fly in the us and then
highjack planes and use them to kill 3000+ people. So of all the rules and
laws that have come down the pike since 9/11 this one probably the most
logical.

Just what precisely is doing extra intrusive checks on international
students going to achieve?

Are you to suggest that only international people could ever hijack a
plane?

Are you to suggest that people who hijack planes in the US are only
going to train in the US, or in the air at all for that matter?

Or perhaps you think that the hijackers are going to present a PPL to
the cabin crew before they hijack and the cabin crew will reject non-US
issued licences!

These "most logical" rules and laws as you put it serve nothing but to
calm the fears of the general unthinking public, they do nothing to
protect from further incidents.