What would have been the optimal response to 9/11?
827222
invade afghainstan with a more unified force... then go after lebanon or syria NOT iraq
1115243
The liberals would have been dumbfounded.  They would have done nothing to protect the country.  After 9/11 I was so happy that Al Gore wasn't elected President.  He wouldn't have known what to do with himself.
1121876
goerge bush knew it was going to happen. he wasnt even suprised when he heard it. \nhere are some cool things:\n-9+11=20 you do a trick with the 20 dolloar bill and you can see a oicture of the WTC on fire.\n-911 (emergency #) or 9/11\n-the pentagon had nine hundred and eleven mails and emails that day.
486012
We'd be so much better off! He isn't perfect by any means but Iraq never would have happened and I believe neither would 9-11. \nThe environment certainly would have been better off!\nHow many people would be alive today if Bush hadn't been in?\nThousands-many thousands!
947857
He could have said, "you know, one of the hardest parts of my job is all the lying I do, all the bold-faced untruthery I must push on the American people.  Luckily, I have a forth estate of grovelling servants, like you, Katie, to help me in my unprecedented destruction of this once proud nation.  Thanks so much"\n\nThat's what he should have said.
779357
Today, the terrorists would need to bring a small army to keep the passengers away from them.  Back on 9/11 everyone thought hijackers would not kill the passengers because they needed them for bargaining chips.
955123
Not even close. The reason for 9/11 is that radical muslim terrorists view all non-muslims as infidels that need to be wiped off the face of the earth. This was just ONE attack in that plan!
278755
Well, if I were in the same situation as in front of a bunch of kids and the first plane hit.  I would finish what I was doing.  With the first plane you don't know what you have.(it could be an accident with just one)  Especically, if you factor in the local emergency services are already responding.  And if it is more complicated the air trafic controllers should be dealing with all other problems.  After the second disappeared if I wasn't finished with the kids I would try and leave as smoothly as possible, because it was one of those things parents need to explain.  After it was determined a second or third plane had disappeared then scramble jets, but the problem is if there were more we need to know where to send the fighters.  (Prior to 9/11 I'm not sure we had an internal radar network).  All the planes would be grounded.   \n\nI don't know that I would have done anything different.  The seven minutes people complain about would be moot if it was an accident.  And at that point even the air traffic controllers didn't know what we had.  Making a rash decision before it is known what is happening could only exsperate things.\n\n\nSo even with hind sight, with a pre- 9/11 mindset anything different could be done.
469751
I think you should ask our genius of a president. He did a good job of letting us forget Osama by attacking a country that had nothing to do with 9/11. Also, don't forget that all the terrorists that day were Saudi's, the Bush family best friends.
818557
No sorry but for a recension watch here:\nhttp://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Sept_11_2001/Blowback_CJ_article.html
19670
Nothing!! He would of only made our situation worse concerning terrorism. If you remember he was in Vietnam, but also was a protester along side Jane Fonda! Too liberal!!
608610
Well there was this theory going around the eastern hemisphere showing that if you look into the only beneficiary of 9/11, trace the process and analyse the consequences, put the pieces together and try to make sense of how it was possible for this terrible attack to happen without the interference of intelligence or military air defense .. you'll come up with one .. and only one result.
1065193
Thank you.  I lost family members on 9/11.\n\nOn the whole, I agree with your sentiment and much of what you say.  I believe that people in our government were complicit with the attack on 9/11.  Israel kept their people out of the WTC on 9/9, 9/10, and 9/11.  The Egyptian president made 3 separate phone calls to Bush concerning the impending attack.\n\nIt is my feeling that most of the world knew about it except us here in NY (and the rest of the Amercan populaton).  If you remember the news broadcasts the previous summer, most of it had to do with shark bites and a boy who was too old for little league baseball.  No real news.  i was wondering why there was no actual news the whole summer.  I understood the morning of 9/11.\n\nThe Bush family does multi-million dollar business with the Bin Laden family.  why would they hunt down and kill a business partner? Not in their interest.\n\nI also am convinced that there was no passenger plane hitting the pentagon. If you see the actual pictures after the explosion you will undertand that the hole it made was much too small for such a larged winged missile to have hit.  Plus, the area of the pentagon that was damaged was closed for repair.  If I were a terrorist, I would aim for the area that held most of the high-ranking individuals.  if I were the in the White House, I would aim for the portion of the Pentagon that would do the least damage.\n\nAdditionally, I believe no one (including the attackers) had any idea the attack on the WTC would be so successful.\n\nI was told by someone whom I trust that he read that Bush had plans to go to war with Iraq before he even usurped the presidency.  I haven't checked it out, but it does make sense to me.  The fact that he went ahead with his plans despite world-wide protest indicates that he and the rest of the crew are single-mindedy carrying out their own agenda for world domination.\n\nAs I'm writing this I realize how radical it sounds, but it seems to be true anyway.
1098154
you are right to be curious, there are major cover-ups going on regarding 9/11. i would invite you to view www.911truth.org (i'm not affiliated with them).  also www.scholarsfor911truth.org .\n\nthere are many more but those will get you started :)
938371
it wouldve been funny...but people dont say 9-11, they say 9-1-1. sorry :o)
364398
As a member of the military I have some reluctance in answering this question the way I feel it needs.\n\nWill the USA sugger another large-scale attack?  I don't doubt that another attack of the magnitude of 9/11 is possible.  In fact I am quite sure there are a number of terrorist organizations planning attacks like 9/11 even as I write this posting.\n\nAre 9/11's preventable?\n\nI think that if news reports are to be believed we have already prevented attacks such as this.  (I don't necessarily believe news reports).  That said in a free society such as we enjoy we simply can not (And probably should not) do what is necessary to prevent all such attacks.  If we give up our freedom to prevent all such attacks we are handing a victory to the terrorists.
429691
Let's think about this a little bit...how long do you think that it would have taken anyone to plan out an attack like that. Think about how many people would have to be involved. I don't think that Bush could have done it in the amount of time that he was president. If you want to believe it was our own government that was involved I would have to start looking at the Clinton administration or administrations preceding that. That doesn't seem to work!\n\nCome on people! There are terrorists out there that want us dead. Why is that so hard to understand. Oh yeah and for those people that sit there and accuse Bush for 9/11 and then sit there and talk about how stupid he is, I think that you need to pick one...because those two ideas do not work together!