I've not been keeping up with all the threads, so I don't know who's been saying what (but can guess in some cases). Anyway, having slagged GW a time or two, I thought I ought to come back here and admit that his speech to congress was pretty good. His actions too (or lack of them) have gone far beyond anything I dared hope for, when he was still in "wanted dead or alive" mode.

Anyone who wants a laugh out of the whole catastrophe need look no farther than the video footage simulating air marshalls at work. Just the sort of scenario to bring the punters flocking back to air travel. (Will hijackers who trained as pilots have to go through reskilling programs before they can work as air marshalls?)

Oh, and apparently any US Air Force general can now shoot down jumbos without recourse to the president. That's too much reasurance for one day.