Quote Originally Posted by Shelbay
Your right..It should have Never happened and I still don't know how New Yorkers don't live in fear..I would have moved if I had seen that..stronger than me..How could any President have stopped that? I mean they did catch us off guard..like Pearl Harbor..and America pulled together then..what happened this time? And I see where you used the word "exploited"..good description that makes sense instead of the conspiracy stuff I read.

Yes they did catch us "off guard", but that was because of stupidity on our part. For one thing the doors of the captain's cabin should have been secured. The airlines allowed children, and others to see the pilot(s). Israel has not had a hijacking since they reinforced the doors. No Israeli plane will bow to the demands of hijackers and change course, regardless of box cutters - or even guns.

Supporting the Afghanistani insurgents in the 80's, by the U.S. government, was a huge mistake. We even supported jihad against the USSR by them!

If Jimmy Carter ha deposed the Iranian Ayatollah, and replaced him with a more secular Shaw, Reagan wouldn't have won the election, ushering in Bush, then Clinton, and Dubya. I remember debating the "Shaw vs. Ayatollah" question with ill-informed people before they took the hostages. May of my left-leaning young associates at work (c. 1979) believed that the Ayatollay was better than the Shaw of Iran. I disagreed, even back then.

There's a million reasons why things are screwed up - and I'm sorry to say that the religious mindset, and American complacence, are largely responsible. The rest of the blame lies with a stupid Democratic Party, and a Republican administration that is taking advantage of a bad situation that they themselves ushered in.