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The responsibility of preservation of self and family is a moral responsibility abdicated by many apparently.

I would say that the best approach is a combination of an armed citizenry AND a professional military to take the fight to where the terrorists are based AND good intel to root out the buggers. Armed citizens on planes (or at least armed pilots) nmay have prevented the 9/11 attacks - but armed citizens would have done nothing to prevent the first WTC attack.

I think you need to better familiarize with the concept of a disarmed culture. Guns are more than just tools in this country, they are owned by a culture that takes self-defense very seriously. Recall the old mantra that gun control leads to genocide? Through the right prism, then, 9/11 is well understood not as an externalized threat, but as internalized ailment in the culture-- that is how Americans have traditionally handled such things as adults taking responsibility rather than the child tendency to blame an external factor.

Think about the school shootings, children and teachers running for their lives rather than tackling en masse two skinny shotgun wielding kids, all the while the federalis in the SWAT hid behind protection in the parking lot.

That is the culture of a society that has given up the responsibility of protecting the herd, protecting their fellow man, protecting themselves for the hope that they alone might escape with their life.

Todd Beamer, the best of America's sons, demonstrated that a thousand F-16s cannot defeat one determined real American.

Lets resist a tangent on the CIA ties to radical islam in the years after the Cold War and failure to tie up loose ends, and focus on only a writer who argued:

"its a good thing that US soldiers are targets for terrorists rather than American citizens at home."

If you wish to tie that back to sound American conservative thinking, be my guest, but don't just ignore what the author wrote simply because at this moment in time you happen to be on the same side of a particular issue-- that is called ideological blinders.