"Roger Long" wrote in message
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No, but if it really is a war, there must be something useful the other
services could be doing. If there are too many boats to worry about
anything under a couple hundred feet long sailing up the edge of
Manhattan,
why are they worrying about airplanes?

Our military is much too small to effectively patrol these areas, even if we
devoted our entire resources to it. The war on drugs has proven that we
cannot make our borders impenetrable.

Like it or not, ordinary citizens such as longshoremen and even pilots are
an important part of national security. We just have to be on the watch for
anything out of the ordinary.

That does not mean we should condone waste of the resources we have.
Harassing Cessnas and investigating Tiger Woods as a terrorist is
unconscionable.