Taxes. You mean that $300 check that I didn't qualify for because I don't have kids? (Or dependants of any kind.)
Might not be the exact reason why they didn't give it to me but it's close enough. (It's been many moons that I've slept through since then.)
But at any rate, Osama HAS commited other acts against the U.S. Just not lately, and not on our side of the Atlantic. He's bombed several embasies over the years.
What the original post was talking about that I don't agree to.
Okay, so the FBI says, "Mr. President, we think that Osama is going to use an airliner as a bomb. We don't know when, or where, but sometime within the next few months."
Now, you're the president... *waits patiently for the screaming in terror to stop* What do you do?
Airline security is heightened, though even today it's more annoying than it is securing.
And what if we had planes scrambled that terrible morning? What COULD they do? Shoot down two airliners full of fuel somewhere over manhattan? Scatter flaming debris though the residential areas outside of it maybe?
Hell, at least there's a CHANCE that the one that hit the pentagon might have crashed in the yard and not the side of the building itself.
And noone here can really think they would shut all airlines down for any 'undetermined' time for something that has no set date. It's like a bomb threat. You get the call, you lock down, get everyone out, but sooner or later you gotta let it get back to normal.
It all boils down to if they DID have the information, even if just the city it would happen in, What could they do to stop it?
