Before 9/11, we handled this better
(NEWSER) - Imagine this: Muslim terrorists hijack a jet and hold it hostage for two weeks. Simultaneously, a bomb blows up a 747 in midair, killing 300-plus people. Months later, a US airliner is bombed over Greece. Five months after that, terrorists kill 20 aboard a US plane in Pakistan. All of this actually happened between 1985 and 1989, and “as a country, our psychological reaction, much to our credit, was calm, measured and not yet self-defeating,” writes pilot Patrick Smith in Salon . More»
