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Originally Posted by Roguish Lawyer
Here's what Rumsfeld said Friday: "I think all of us have a sense if we imagine the kind of world we would face if the people who bombed the mess hall in Mosul, or the people who did the bombing in Spain, or the people who attacked the United States in New York, shot down the plane over Pennsylvania and attacked the Pentagon, the people who cut off peoples' heads on television to intimidate, to frighten – indeed the word 'terrorized' is just that. Its purpose is to terrorize, to alter behavior, to make people be something other than that which they want to be."
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The way I interpret that, he's saying it as though the high jackers "shot down" the plane, not us. Seems to me that people are reading way too much into something that, logically, can't even be read that way. I view it as a something that he just got tongue tied on.