I was really angry at Bush for being against arming pilots. And I was really ticked at the R’s for just backing off and trusting passengers of all future flights to basically respond as the passengers of the last jet to go down responded.
Let’s be frank: If something like 9/11 had preceeded 9/11. It never would have been able to happen. The passengers on ALL of those planes would have prevented it. We really didn’t need to beef up security or anything. We only needed to rely on the power and boldness of the American citizen in this new paradigm to handle it.
IOW, within 9/11, were the seeds of preventing it from ever happening again. It let every single airline passenger know that “wait out the hijacking” is not an option. But our nanny state saw a crisis to exploit to reduce our freedom and they jumped at it.
And they were republicans.
ticked at the R’s for just backing off = ticked at the R’s for NOT just backing off
Well, 9/11 happened because the government had for years told airline staff and passengers to simply remain passive, keep their mouths shut, and obey terrorists' commands during hijackings, since Uncle Sam would free them once they reached Cuba or Libya. This goes back to the Palestinian/Red Army Faction hijackings of the 1970s, altered slightly by the airline bombings of the 1980s, which brought us airport metal detectors. As a result, Al Qaeda led the sheep to slaughter on three of the four airplanes during the 9/11 attacks (The passengers of United 93 of course fought back after they learned what was going on from family cell phone calls).
Being a frequent business flyer myself (not by choice), I can safely say that another 9/11 is a virtual impossibility, not because of DHS or TSA, but because of better informed passengers, who will most certainly stand up together should a terrorist suddenly jump up in mid-flight and shout "Allah Ahkbar!"