Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : View from the Center and Left -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dale Baker who wrote (29187)	9/26/2006 4:02:42 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541248

I assume part of the reason cockpit doors weren't hardened was cost- that's our wonderful capitalist system at work. Our companies aren't going to spend a lot of money to protect the public when they don't have to. Interestingly the same people who don't like government regulation of business, and who rise to sing hymns to capitalism, want the government intruding in our banking and phone systems. Go figure. I say let's make the planes have hardened doors- and whatever else we can do that's practical, and doesn't interfere with civil liberties. Makes sense, doesn't it?

To: Dale Baker who wrote (29187)	9/26/2006 4:09:11 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541248

--Hardened cockpit doors would have made the hijackings impossible, indeed any hijackings I take it you are 'Not' a fan of 'Mission Impossible' then. "--An FBI focus on suspicious reports of activities by Arab students in the US would have caught the flight school episodes. I knew quite a few Arab students in the US at the time, they were used to a huge lee way in coming and going without hindrance. They could come and go in and out of the country with great ease compared to non-Arab students. Just like most students they were all pretty suspicious if you ask me. I am not sure it would have made as much sense to to focus on the Arab flight school students then as it makes now. I had an Egyptian friend who was here getting his PhD in blue lazer technology. Back home he was a Coronel in the Egyptian military who supervised a fighter pilot programs. He didn't seem one bit suspicious, even though he criticised our culture a lot. "--A White House focus on Bin Laden could have focused the bureaucracy to be looking in the right place. We know OBL was not high on the agenda, if he was there at all." That would have been in Afghanistan, right? We still can't make a clear physical connection between the Terrorists and OBL. It's just by his comments that we link them at all.