Certain moves that fateful day were strokes of genius. Other moves, not made were lost opportunities never to be regained...
Grounding all flight ASAP was an inspired move, which probably saved tens of thousands of lives.
Not videotaping every single passenger of all the flights remaining in the air and being forced to land at the nearest airport was a lost opportunity which would have identified every other terrorist aboard other planes that day.
Why this did not occur to anyone in charge in the FAA that day shall forever remain a mystery to me.
As far as I know, there is not even an accurate record of whether all passengers who were "stranded" when flights were ordered to land simply didn't disappear and never continued their flights.
Hmmmmm...sounds alot like a certain day in December, 1941. And, like that day, 9/11 will forever live in infamy as it slowly receeds into the mists of legend.
We will win this war, and we will weaken Islam hopefully to the point where it can no longer recover. But the way things are currently going, it is going to be a very long and costly fight. (So what else is new, right?) ;o)