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To: Wolfstar; snopercod
But I think it's safe to say that neither man dashed about hither and yon just to satisfy their critics.

More to the point, because the experience has been so rare in our history, no president can say precisely what he would do at such a moment. It seems to me more than entirely reasonable for a president to take a brief time to collect his thoughts, collect his emotions, give his staff a bit of time to get an initial handle on things, and then react publicly.

Excellent points. Somewhere, there is a report on a physiological study on how pilots react to (a) a potential midair with oncoming, conflicting traffic, and (b) continued flight from good weather into IFR conditions. The timelines are stunning - including the time taken to acknowledge that there IS a problem, to determine what to do, and to physically do it. The length of time it take to do all this is much, much longer than anyone would think ... and that's under optimal conditions with current training. Someone who's not accustomed to handling extreme stress situations will experience more of a lag, or may even do nothing until it's too late.

Kerry is a fraud.

173 posted on 08/05/2004 11:23:15 AM PDT by bootless (Never Forget - And Never Again)
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To: bootless
Kerry is a fraud.

Indeed.

198 posted on 08/05/2004 12:19:50 PM PDT by Wolfstar (Our Founders' bedrock vision: INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY, not the false equality of the statist collective.)
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