I wonder if we’d be better off if it’d succeeded earlier. Getting competent at preventing and/or responding to specific attack mechanisms seems likely to be better done earlier in history, when there are at least smaller crowds for the new norms to be worked out upon.
A single plane in the 1970s, followed by the recognition that hijacking is just no longer tolerable (destroy the plane before letting an attacker take control) would perhaps have been fewer lives lost than 9/11/2001.
I wonder if we’d be better off if it’d succeeded earlier. Getting competent at preventing and/or responding to specific attack mechanisms seems likely to be better done earlier in history, when there are at least smaller crowds for the new norms to be worked out upon.
A single plane in the 1970s, followed by the recognition that hijacking is just no longer tolerable (destroy the plane before letting an attacker take control) would perhaps have been fewer lives lost than 9/11/2001.