"Dave" wrote in message
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Some loon on board a plane with a gun may succeed in defending the plane
but
he may not.


And if the "loon", aka sky marshal, fails in defending the plane they are no
worse off than they would be if the "loon" had never been aboard.



either the sky marshal failed so we have to shoot it down or
they sky marshal must have cause the plane to come down by his actions in
frustrating the terrorists.

The result is the same 200 plus people dead but the politicians are clean.


Or the sky marshal succeeds in defending the airplane and 200 people that
otherwise would have been killed are still alive.