[piasa]

No, it wasn't the military. If it was anything it was the fact that the airlines were paying the Democrats NOT to impose more expensive security measures or measures that would make the public more uncomfortable about flying. Al Gore wasn't getting patted on the back by the airlines for nothing. A big airline security incident like this wasn't something anyone would want except someone trying to damage our economy.

When that single plane incident didn't do the damage they had hoped it would, terrorists would have to find something more spectacular that could not be denied or discounted as accidental. And they did.

[piasa]

I don't know if it was terrorism or not but I do know that another flight went down just off our coast that was flown by an Egyptian islamist "divebomber" hell bent on suicide and that barely ruffled anyone's feathers.

I don't think that was just an isolated incident by a distraught man- IMHO it was a calculated act by a terrorist who probably has other associates we should be looking at but haven't, at least not publicly.

Like it or not, though, it is better for us economically to pretend everything is just an accident that can be fixed if we just solve some technical problem with the equipment. The stocks people get the willies if only fix for the problem is war.