[goldstategop]

Saving 3,000 Americans working in the Pentagon and World Trade Center buildings would have been a "bad outcome?" I think it would have been the least bad of all outcomes. In war there is a principle called triage. Sometimes you don't have any good options and you're called upon to decide to use force in a way that does the least harm. Preventing buildings with large numbers of people working inside them from falling down is a valid application of triage. Sure the people on the planes would have been doomed but least the country could take comfort in the knowledge their lives weren't being used to murder other innocent people. Life is a series of trade-offs and its just too bad political correctness has tried to eliminate ALL risks from life. The result of that philosophy is a lot of people died needlessly on 911. Its time to get rid of it of before we have more innocent deaths like happened on that day because we were too paralyzed to take decisive action to protect thousands when we could have.

[DallasMike]

The title is misleading. These pilots would not have had the authority to shoot down the jetliners even if they had intercepted them. This isn't news -- we knew pretty much everything said here by the afternoon of September 11th.

[Vidalia]

This is history now, old hat and no longer relevant...

[Ramius]

There is 20/20 hindsight and totally myopic hindsight. This is somehow both.

[Psycho_Bunny]

Newsmax used to be credible.

[SkyPilot]

What a ridiculous article.

What's their next headline?

9-11 NYC Fire Dept: We Wouldn't Have Sent Help to WTC Had We Known it Would Collapse"

Before all this "Sep 11th Anniversary" hysteria begins, let me offer this advice:

STOP IT!