[SuperLuminal]

40-50 years ago, the same thing would have happened on all of the planes. It is refreshing to know that there are some selfless, freedom-loving cititzens left.

This has become a sensitive, counseling-addicted Nation of spineless wimps. Just look at the TV coverage of this disaster.

A Nation that produces sailors who are more interested in their own safety than in protecting the secrets of one of our most important aircraft. Even though their act of abject cowardice put at risk millions of Americans on the west coast.

Nope! Prior to the 1970's, none of the other three aircraft would have reached their targets either.

[soccermom]

Prior to the 1970s, no one would have fathomed what we saw yesterday. Hindsight is 20/20. It is easy for us, knowing what the plan was, to say we would overcome thugs with just knives. I don't think there is a person in the world who wouldn't have fought them -- knowing their fate. But a suicide mission with a hijacked jet is something unheard of. In most cases, the plane lands with few, if any deaths. Now why should they risk having the whole plane blow up by a bomb when, according to this report, the passengers were told they were returning to the airport? The only reason these people put up a fight when the passengers on the other jets apparently didn't, is because they knew what happened at the WTC.