We'll show Al Queda some "suicide hijackings"

Does anyone take seriously the intelligence warning that our friends in Al Queda may be planning to try some more hijackings of civilian airliners this summer?   If its true (and it may well be), those bastards will learn something about the American people up close and personal.   Simply put, there is no way in hell that a plane load of Americans is going to allow themselves to be hijacked without a violent struggle.

If the terrorists have some chemical weapons or debilitating drugs, it may be possible for them to prevail even though they are outnumbered.   But there is absolutely no way that passengers will allow themselves to be conned and intimidated into cooperating with their abductors.

For my part, I would welcome the privilege of being on board one of the targeted flights.   As long as I got to bring home an ear or an eyeball from one of the terrorists as a souvenir.   All I know is that I would either come home with blood under my fingernails and in between my teeth or else I wouldn't be coming home at all.   I have a sneaking suspicion that I am not the only one who feels this way, either.

After my blood pressure returned to normal and I re-read the previous paragraph, I decided that it was kind of silly.   What I meant to say was that Americans are not sheep and are not stupid.   When faced with certain death, they will do everything in their power to resist, as the heros on Flight 93 demonstrated.   This time around, the cockpit door will be locked and armored.   The pilots will have their fire axe, and quite possibly a pistol or two.   And the passengers will be kicking, screaming, punching, scratching, biting and throwing things.

The plane may crash in the ensuing chaos and destabilizing shifts in weight and balance.   People may well be killed.   But I think that it is highly unlikely that anyone will be able to successfully use an airliner as a guided cruise missile again anytime soon.   At least not here, and certainly not now.