Yglesias is right to point out, yet again, that there's almost no discernible difference between how the government should respond to threats of a "normal" hijacking and how one should respond to threats of hijacking planes to fly them into buildings. Aside from being much less likely to consider shooting them down, there is no difference at all.
As Jon Stewart said on Franken's show - Bush isn't dumb, we are. If we were smarter he couldn't talk like this and not have the country throw up their hands in a collective 'WUUUUUUH?'
