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Article: Arming airline pilots is a risk worth taking. (the last word).(air marshall passengers)(Brief Article)
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- Insight on the News
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- June 24, 2002
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It should have been a no-brainer decision: At dawn, say, on Sept. 12 an emergency authorization should have permitted the arming of airline pilots. Despite the deaths of more than 3,000 civilians in the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon, however, the gang on the Potomac ambled along. And never mind that it appears now that the White House was the target of the fourth airliner, United Flight 93, that crashed in Pennsylvania after unarmed passengers bravely attacked the armed al-Qaeda terrorists.
The failure to arm airline pilots under such circumstances has been a failure of nerve at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue. President George W. Bush has been ...