[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.

[habs4ever]

Its not nice to think about this, but those outcomes were told when the terrorists took the planes without any guns.In the panic and confusion, no one realized that the passengers actually held the upper hand, in a rigged game.They could choose to die on there own terms, not those ashholes'.But in the chaos, only a few understood this.That is understandable, and normal, and no fault of their own.The hijackers were counting on this.The terror froze everyone.

I hope if something like ever happens again that many will be able to think clearly about the odds faster and maybe have some chance at survival.If a guy has only a knife, he can lose.That, terribly, is the best chance one gets.For him to lose, not for you to win.