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Article #2048Re: It wasn't Bush who failed to protect Americans!
From: Merlin Dorfman
Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 04:05
Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 04:05
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JerryMouse (nospam@invalid.com) wrote:
: We'll get armed pilots eventually and this silliness will stop. The only
: question is how many hundreds (thousands?) have to die before Mineta has his
: mind changed for him.
The hijack/suicide approach is pretty useless once passengers
get the idea that they will not survive a hijacking. Picture UA93
happening for every future hijacking.
Of course that might meet the terrorists' needs--a plane going
down with all its passengers every few hours or days. But it's
hard to see how armed pilots could prevent that any more than armed
(or for that matter unarmed) passengers could.
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