"Attack on democracy and freedom"

I agree…I don’t think we’d have problems there. If anything, an attack on The White House would be a highly emotional blow. Think about the panic that would result if people turned on CNN, Fox News, or MSNBC, to see The White House on fire! Even if things like The Statue of Liberty, or The White House, do not contain as many people as other landmarks, I think they would cause more of a stir, visually. Not to say it would be worse than the WTC, though.

I’m just glad that they seemed to have missed a lot of their mark. I read in one place that if not for the universal grounding, 30 planes would have been in the air with plans to attack something.

Yeah, Otto nailed it, IMO. We’d back whoever was in charge.