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[The Velveteen Ocelot]

Reagan was absolutely wrong for firing the PATCO controllers, but that was in 1981. As a pilot I can say the air traffic controllers who are working now do a terrific job, working in very complex and crowded airspace. It's totally unfair to these great folks, and wrong to conclude the air traffic controllers were to blame for 9/11. It may be fair, however, to conclude that the FAA and the military should have anticipated and trained for the sort of hijackings that occurred. (Oh, wait, Condi Rice said nobody could possibly have anticipated that somebody would hijack an airplane and crash it into a building. Never mind.)