[AU] Light plane sparked terror alert

It is something that no one wants to talk about. We have spent
trillions for defense, yet when one was needed there was not a
single armed aircraft even parked on the ground anywhere in the
Eastern Half of the USA...

Well, shucks, that's called "living in a time of peace".

I suppose it is a good thing the Russians never attacked...

Prior to 1990, I'm sure there were plenty of armed interceptors
around. Don't you remember how delighted we all were, that in the
grand new era there would be no need to spend trillions on defending
from attack by an imagined foe, so we would be safe from broken arrows
and suchlike hazards attendant upon our Cold War footing?

What a dizzy decade that was, when the only thing we had to puzzle us
was the peculiarities of the president's member.

all the best -- Dan Ford
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