[PogySailor]

Could've, should've....

Sure. But were we ABLE to? How?

The things we would have had to do to prevent the attacks provoke howls from the left (as well as some on the right) AFTER 9/11. Can you just imagine if the FBI started rounding up flight school students from ME countries on slim evidence available at the time?

[Steve_Seattle]

"Can you just imagine if the FBI started rounding up flight school students from ME countries on slim evidence available at the time?"

Good point. I can just hear Molly Ivins: "Somebody needs to tell John Ashcroft that it's not a crime to attend flight school, even if you don't look like a blonde, blue-eyed Christian." And so forth . ..