Granted, the fix to protecting aircraft cockpits would have been rather low-tech and efficient. But don't give yourself a case of "round shoulder" patting yourself on the back about having been cognizant of the threat (when did you start warning the FAA.. 70's, 80's, 90's??).
I gave my first threat briefing to the FAA in the early 80's. I knew people that were briefing the FAA in the late 70's. You brought this whole timing issue up of when did I learn of the threat. Don't start twisting it now into something else.
How about "let's surrender".. Let's "make a deal". Let's "whistle past the graveyard"..
Brilliant. Replace one catchy phrase with another catchy phrase. You're going far. Who actually cares what it means. I listened to one member of our glorious Congress today say that the new Iraqi government is like a new [sports] team. We don't know whether they're any good. Get that 'ol sports analogy in so the beer-bellies know what's going on. I gather you must be one of the beer-bellies.
Well, you can always move to Saudi Arabia, N. Korea, or Iran and seek an even more accountable government...
Another brilliant comment. Well shit, since the conservatives don't like abortion, why don't you all move somewhere else. You don't like capital gains tax, get your ass out of here and move to New Zealand. You're so fond of capital punishment, move to Saudi Arabia.
I mean.. geezus.. what do you want? Government, by its very nature, is a powerful institution permeated with ambitious (and often corrupt) individuals with a plethora of agenda, political and personal. That's the LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR OF ANY GOVERNMENT!!
In which case, where is the accountable government that you plan on leaving in Iraq? You forgot already that was your solution. You have to be the dumbest sh!t on SI, you can't remember what you wrote two posts ago and you're not bright enough to check.
Ah, I see.. you need everything put in a nice pretty historical package, tied with a logical bow.
But truth as you see it often is not truth as I see it, and vice versa. Where you ask if the bombing of Cambodia was legal, I ask why the world tolerated the occupation of large expanses of Cambodia and Laos by N. Vietnamese forces?
You get dumber by the minute. That was the point I just made. You and I have different opinions about what this country has done and whether it was right or wrong, legal or illegal. And the political parties/government encourage that. They're leading you around by the nose and you don't smell the stench.
Give them a kiss, if you so desire. But I personally find the Saudi regime just as distasteful as Iran's. The primary difference is that we no longer seeing the Saudi's threatening to wipe other countries off the map, or massing hundreds of thousands of children to be sacrificed as martyrs in suicide attacks.
It's Bush that's kissing the Saudis. The Saudis are still producing the educational material that teaches there children to hate infidels. They write it, print it and ship it to the US in addition to using it in their schools in Saudi Arabia.
How many Iranians and Iraqis were on the airplanes on 9/11? How many were Saudis?
But in our government, you have the right to vote ever 4 years for a new administration, and every two years for a new congressional representative. If you lose, then you can sit back and stew while the elected official is held accountable to the majority that elected them.
Then why is it there are so many people that support term limits? Because they don't believe that members are held accountable and the electorate doesn't want to be accountable for who they vote for. Ironic, isn't it?
Then there's the nuances of accountability. Every one who opposes pork raise your hand. Good show of hands. Now let's get down to the nitty gritty. Ted Stevens gets more pork/per capita for Alaska than any other state in the US; by a wide margin. Everyone who opposes pork for the State of Alaska, raise your hand. Another great show of hands, except for a few....Where you boys and girls from? ... Alaska. ... What do you have to folks from Alaska have to say for yourselves? .... Go Ted.
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