Reply #1: If we had shot the plane down, [View All]

[democratreformed]

no one would have ever known it. It would have been another plane full of heroes where the passengers fought back and caused it to crash before it reached its destination.

And, now that I look back over what was written above, it is very contradictory of itself. Notice the person says it's not okay to shoot down a plane to protect potentially (how many people were in the Pentagon?) hundreds if not thousands. Then, they turn around and use the certainty that planes will be shot down to protect ONE MAN to defend his decision to stay and endanger the lives of those children.

I guess we have to conclude from that - that one person, because of who he is, is more important than any number of regular old American citizens.