I must say that the authorities were in a lose/lose situation ..... only hindsight shows what might have been the better course of action and those brave heroes didn't have the advantages that we have in assessing the situation .... we know exactly what had happened, we know how little time they had, we know the tragic results.
I read on a number of threads in the days following that attacks on 9/11 that the WTC center was divided into "modules" (my word) for firefighting purposes. The building was designed so that, in a normal fire situation, it was better for people not within a "module" to stay put ..... there were partitions, firewalls, etc. that made it safe even for those in higher floors than a fire to remain where they were. But this was no "ordinary" fire nor an ordinary situation in any way.
I, for one, do not intend to play Monday morning quarterback and critique the actions of those caught up in that horror. I am thankful that there weren't many more thousands of people killed because the potential was certainly there; it was due to the brave acts of many heroes that the death toll, as awful as it was, was not even higher. May God bless those who lived through that nightmare and the families of those who did not!
It is easy now for the dims to say the President should have prevented this. Yet, how many dims are fighting him every day too make it harder to prevent the NEXT 9/11? This administration keeps telling us there will be one. What are we doing to prevent it? - and I don't mean depending on the government AT ANY LEVEL.