[Tom Bombadil]

I can think of no other nation on earth where the passengers on a hijacked plane would try to take it back. Even with the knowlege that the ultimate mission was one involving suicide pilots.

Only here in the United States would ordinary people take the initiative as they did on flight 93. Europeans, South Americans, Asians, in my mind they would all have waited and hoped for the best.

That American trait of individuals organizing and taking the initiative was Bin Laden's greatest oversight. May he not rest in peace.

[don-o]

Europeans, South Americans, Asians, in my mind they would all have waited and hoped for the best. That American trait of individuals organizing and taking the initiative was Bin Laden's greatest oversight. May he not rest in peace.

Interesting semi-racist post.

Your take is that American WASP's are the only folks in the world who can be counted on to do the right thing?

And that Europeans, South Americans, Asians are not really Americans? Even though they are American citizens?