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This is another silly "feel good" solution...
(one that moves further along the lines of restricting the rights of American citizens,
the sort of solution that politicians like and that we DON'T need).
As pointed out, Delta force would be completely wasted on something like this even if there WERE that many of them.
As I just posted on another thread:

It is virtually impossible to prevent something like this by trying to disarm all passengers.
As has been pointed out, 4-5 guys with sharp PENCILS, with some training, planning and coordination,
would have an excellent chance to pull this off against an unsuspecting -and unarmed- group of passengers and crew.
Prevention ahead of time would have the better chance...a job for intellegence rather than security.
Pre-planning would work well too...such as a locked flight deck and armed crew.

Best of all is to acknowledge that we cannot PREVENT the attempts, but we CAN prevent SUCCESS of the attempt.
Simple example:
You could give each passenger a mini-bat as they get on the plane so that passengers, crew, and terrorists are all EQUALLY armed.
Any group of terrists (or simple nut cases) are going to be seriously outnumbered and nobody is going to be "outgunned".
Problem solved!