It is going to take quite a bit of thinking about the new and upcoming methods employed by our military, intelligence, economic, diplomatic, banking, electronic, etc communities to ferret out, isolate, exterminate.Just think if we could immediately find, freeze, seize all of bin Laden's finances. That would shut him and his people down faster than merely killing him. Not to mention jamming all his commo. Speaking of that, Lucent says they can locate shutdown cell phones.
A thought about today's fighter pilots: they now have to be prepared to shoot down civilian planes. I'll bet commanders are having some extremely serious briefings about that with their pilots. Some pilots may just have to hand in their wings. Helluva tough call.
Two thoughts occur to me: If I were the trigger puller against an airliner that was assuredly terrorist controlled I could do it but I think it would be the last time I could ever fly. I would live but the pipper picture would always be on my mind. (Imagine knowing your wife or child were on board.) I would much rather be on board personally fighting knowing I would die.
Mark Berent (more about Mark)
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