"C J Campbell" wrote in message
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"James Robinson" wrote in message
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Not quite. He was informed of the first aircraft hitting the WTC before
he entered the classroom. It was the information about the second that
he heard while in the classroom, which should have made it clear it was
an attack. He remained in the classroom to finish the story with the
children, and did not leave immediately.

Even if that was the case (and it contradicts the news reports I was
watching at the time), what else should he have done about it? Immediately
ask for the football and launch missiles? Hold a conference and tell
everyone who was working to deal with the situation to stop whatever they
were doing and immediately give him a report? Any action taken at that
moment would almost certainly have been the wrong one. As a pilot, one of
the first things you learn about emergencies is to wait and see what the
emergency is before deciding what, if any, action should be taken. In
fact,
everything that could be done was being done.

First thing to do in an emergency is to fly the airplane.

Has Kerry said he would have done anything different? No. He just sees fit
to criticize and armchair quarterback with the hindsight of several years,
but he still can't come up with anything else the President could have
done
even after all this time to think about it.

Someone recently made a point about the old adage that "hindsight is
20/20" -- it isn't. It's terribly myopic. It doesn't teach one to make
decisions when there are so many unknown variables afoot during the original
decision making process.