Its all a big conspiracy thats designed to control us.
Happy?
If you apply your principles arguing in favour of arming the crew of aircraft, does it follow that school bus drivers, fast-food restaurant cashiers, high-school security guards etc.etc. are also justified in being armed? Where does it end?
If that is the case, I am happy to be living in what you call a backwater. Despite the efforts of our complicit suck-hole government, we have not yet created the environment where we have shot innocent bystanders on subway trains, and repatriated 'terror suspects' to third party countries for interrogation.
I don't think we have spent anywhere near $US 400Bn failing to catch OBL and defeat the war on terror either.
Perhaps you are one of the (now) 30% of Americans who think that the War on Terror is a successful US policy?
Of course you will know from history where this is all leading - at the end of every war, the parties involved eventually return to dialogue, and then diplomacy. It is cheaper - economically and in humanitarian terms. Pity they didn't consider that before blundering in to Iraq and spending their (your) 400 Billion inspring a whole new army of terrorists - instead of finding the original comparitvely few, who had no connection with Iraq to start with.
Last edited by Shitsu_Tonka; 8th Sep 2006 at 06:35.