[Beck_isright]

At the time of 9-11 it was not ONLY the government's responsibility. As part of deregulation, the airlines agreed to share the majority of the burden. You are 100% wrong to blame everything on the government. This was a 90-10 screw up. And two of the companies responsible for the 90 will soon be Chapter 11. I guess, as I said earlier, corporate and personal responsibility always falls to the courts. God forbid a company or individual pays for things that they signed up and acknowledged responsibility for.

[WhatHappenedtoAmerica]

I think your perspective is way off. Do you blame the sheep if a shepherd lets in a wolf? Are the airlines responsible for the first trade center bombing? What if these guy would have dispersed chemicals using crop duster or blown up a nuke plant? Would the airlines have been responsible for those actions? The responsibility rests with the many government agencies that let our people down.

[honway]

At the time of 9-11 it was not ONLY the government's responsibility. As part of deregulation, the airlines agreed to share the majority of the burden

The airlines did not refuse permission to the Minneapolis FBI office to look at the 20th hijackers laptop. That was FBI Headquarters. The laptop had sufficient information to have alerted the government to the 9-11 plot.

Exactly what burden did the airlines fail in? The FAA permitted box cutters on flights, that was not an airline rule.