Nothing can stop the attack of aircraft except other aircraft.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.
Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you.
Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.
Only the last two planes, I think, had any shot of being intercepted and taken down on 9/11.
Relying exclusively on air power has limits: planes are effective against fixed strategic targets, like petroleum storage, bridges, and command bunkers; but even then, air power rarely succeeds by itself in destroying a regime's ability to command and control its forces.
Aircraft are always going to be something that terrorists are interested in because you bring down an airliner, you have drawn the world's attention.
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States.
People resisted having weapons on airplanes, but I oversaw the federal air marshals. It's a deterrent. No one sees that weapon, but they are protected on that airplane, and it's a huge positive impact on safety.
Pilots are not the threat.