So I have 2 questions on this topic. One, why was it the Vice President and not the President who authorized the shooting down of Flight 93? Secondly, in what circumstances should this be the norm? I'm skeptical of creating hard rules on the matter, but given that an airliner may very well be hijacked in the future shouldn't we have more of a national discussion about when it is or is not appropriate to blow it out of the sky? Personally, I think the government should be extremely reluctant to do such a thing. But from a lot of the reporting I've seen on the matter it seems that much of the media thinks the government will not be doing its job in an age of terrorism if a plane is not immediately shot down after a commercial pilot loses control of an aircraft.
Posted by armand at June 17, 2004 01:17 PM | TrackBack | Posted to Politics