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NORAD had 51 minutes from the first tower attack. There was plenty of time to intercept, attempt to negotiate, threat, and eventually make the horrible decision to shoot down #77.

And a tenth of a second is plenty of time to track, lower the bat, adjust your stance, and drive a 96-mph fastball into the parking lot. If you know it's coming, and you're one of the 0.01 percent of the population that makes it look easy. I'll scream at a player who whiffs at strike 3 in the dirt, but I know I couldn't do the easiest part of his job on my best day.

The FAA and NORAD, even after they were alerted that we were under attack, were faced with a scenario they had not modeled, had not practiced, had not anticipated. They had formidable assets to track and shoot down planes coming from international airspace. but who was planning to stop an attack between Wheeling and Arlington? And how do you pick out the threat from the tens of thousands of aircraft being tracked at the time?

Mistakes were made. Hind sight 20/20 is an understatement.

Okay, genius. Tell me what you would have done differently. Be specific. Which planes would you have sent, from where, at what time. Assume no information that the people who actually had to make those decisions did not have at the time. Even under those conditions, you have the luxury of having had five years to think about it.

Let's just focus on flight 77, I don't have time to document all the other 9/11 information that you request of me. .....Andrews Air Force base is 10 miles from the Pentagon, yet no fighters were scrambled to protect Washington DC on 9/11, instead NORAD scrambled jets from Otis and Langley Air Force Bases.

Andrews Air Force Base is a huge installation. It has two combat-ready squadrons of f-16 & f-18's fueled up and loaded with weapons. After the towers were hit, even a retard would scramble those jets to protect Washington in the quickest possible time. You tell me why this wasn't done? It is complete incompetence imho.

The Gov. Knew of Operation Bojinka, this concept of flying planes into buildings was nothing new.

I'll scream at a player who whiffs at strike 3 in the dirt, but I know I couldn't do the easiest part of his job on my best day.

Now why on earth can't you adjust your cup????

Seriously, thanks for shooting down (no pun intended) some moronic ideas here...