More on the Syrian airplane hijinks story at WWS.
Maybe I'm just dense (I'm on the Right, after all), but where does it say that you have to treat foreign nationals like you treat citizens? Especially when:
1) your country is at war.
2) they're from an unfriendly country.
3) our enemy recruits citizens of said unfriendly country.
4) they're behaving strangely in a way that reminds you exactly why we're at war.
Remember, we're not talking about discriminating against native-born Americans of Syrian extraction, we're talking about actual Syrians.