A Response To “Routine Turned to Mayhem on Terror Flight”
February 20th, 2012
There are some interesting parallels that we should be looking at. For starters, I was under the impression that the terrorists would not waste their time trying to bring down an airplane again. Apparently, the terrorists are dumber than I have been giving them credit for.
The most interesting parallel is the one with the quality of Japanese pilots in World War II. At the time of Pearl Harbor and well through 1942, the Japanese military had tremendously experienced pilots, with impressive combat flight hours, but as the war ground on, the attrition on these pilots began to take a toll. The Japanese had no system for dog training advice new pilots. Now look at al Qaida. We’ve been trying to blast their training camps everywhere we can find them, and they have been putting the likes of Richard Reid and now Abdul into the skies to try to bring down planes, when looking at them suggests that they aren’t up to the job. Maybe concentrating on taking out training camps isn’t a bad idea.
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