by robertdreed » Wed Aug 02, 2006 1:52 pm
...or maybe it could explain <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>away</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> the current deception. <br><br>The attacks could easily have been avoided with reinforced bulkheads and trained air marshals on the flights. Dealing with problems like this one, the top priority is to reinforce the particular chink in the armor that had been exploited. <br><br>The reports I've heard about plugging that particular vulnerability have not left me reassured, however. What up?<br><br>There was- and is- no other way that a terrorist group could ever obtain a huge, long-range targetable high explosive missile than by a suicide hijacking. That's as close to a conventional weapon (still the most effective kind , incidentally) as they're ever likely to get, in fact. They have no air force, no armada, no flotilla of warships, no heavy artillery...<br><br>(Yeah sure, "this is World War Three." Bollocks. ) <p></p><i></i>