Well, seems to me that the boy has not spent much time in DC since he was elected. When this happened, he was reading to kids, something usually done by first laddies. If we had a president in the oval office, perhapes when he was told the large number of hijackngs, he would have scrambled jets. Obviously one would not shoot one down just because it was hijacked. But as they were all converging on places like NY and DC, one would be at the ready, then, after the first hit, one had 15min. to decide to do the terrible thing - to shoot it down to save others... Well, the dim witted boy, kept reading to the kiddies. Do I blame him, no. I do wish we had a full time president with more sence though. Larry