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Originally Posted by dalmations202
Could the military have intercepted it, and shot it down over a populated area? Quite possibly, but what would the consequences have been for the military shooting down a civilian plane with Americans on it? And the loss of life on the ground? How many more would have died?
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It's more than 'quite possible' that the military could have intercepted and shot down flight 77. The Pentagon was hit 45 minutes after the first WTC was hit, more than an hour after it was evident that multiple planes had been hijacked. That's ample time to fly a fighter from a hundred or so miles away, so I think it's fair to say that the military absolutely should have been able to do such a thing.
What would the collateral damages been had the military shot down one or more of the planes? Well...what would the damage have been had flight 77 hit a heavily populated center rather than an unused portion of a massive government bureaucracy?
The pentagon got lucky on this one, and by and large they got luckier by completely escaping any criticism of their readiness on 9-11. The fact is that our gazillion dollar Department of "Defense" did nothing on 9-11...
nothing.