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To: Windsock who wrote (143407)	9/13/2001 3:42:43 PM
From: tcmay	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Using the "Sato Solution" to wipe out the Congress "Tim - Re:'And why hijack a commercial jet at all? Buy or lease a cargo jet on the open market and crash it into the Golden Gate Bridge or into Pac Bell Park on a crowded day.' "Have you read Clancy's book Debt of Honor? That was precisely what the terrorist did. " Yes, I read "Debt of Honor" several years ago when it came out. As I recall, Captain Sato was the _captain_ of his 747. He crashed his own plane into the Capitol. So, yes, this is an example of using one's own resources. Short of establishly rigidly-enforced no fly zones and very fast shoot-down protocols, this will be almost impossible to stop. A jet taking off from Oakland or SFO can reach Pac Bell Park in a matter of a hundred seconds, not nearly enough time to make a decision to engage it and shoot it down. I recall grinning widely when the Sato Solution was delivered to a Joint Session of Congress, incinerating 530 members of Congress and most of the Executive Branch and a few thousand other lackeys. (For those who think me bloodthirsty or callous, theaters showing "Independence Day" erupted into spontaneous cheers when the aliens shot their beams down and reduced the White House and Empire State Building to smoking rubble. Clancy's description was clearly intended to provoke the reaction of deep satisfaction it did in many, including many in Afghanistan and the West Bank.) Of course, Clancy has been interviewed recently saying that he was not actually trying to "give any ideas" out to terrorists and clucking his disapproval that the "terrorists" did not fight fairly, by, for example, building their own aircraft carriers and doing battle honorably. Actually, Clancy didn't say this, exactly, but he's clearly trying to now distance himself from the Sato Solution. Many are condemning the actions recently as "cowardly," as "not fighting fairly." Considering how the colonial rebels fought the British by blowing up their powderhouses instead of engaging them in the open while dressed in fancy uniforms and playing flutes and drums, I'd say war has always been hell. When a former Prime Minister of Israel led the group which dynamited the King David Hotel with hundreds of British soldiers and civilians in it, was it war or terrorism?) Terrorism is just war carried on by other means. This has been obvious for millennia. --Tim May