NY Post 9/11

[dalmations202]

Originally Posted by alexamenos

Every plane? I'm not saying they should have been on every plane, I'm saying that they should have at least been on one plane which was headed straight for the Pentagon after two other planes had been rammed into the WTCs.

I bet had that plane not been hijacked by al qaeda, but had that plane been instead a tax-payer funded junket to the Caymens for the weekend, every officer at or above the rank of one-star general would have known its exact whereabouts.

Known, or not known..........do you know?

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?

Lawsuits three years down the line from family that would have said you couldn't prove it was hijacked. You couldn't have proven there was no other way to get it down. Lawsuits from the families that would have said it didn't need to be shot down over populated area, etc.

Bad situation, but the military isn't to blame on this one.

[alexamenos]

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?

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.