Originally Posted by mitchmu

3. I tend to side with the writer, here, for the most part, but he lost me when he chose to use the word "terrorist." Actually using that word, while engaged in a confrontation with the FA, on a flight leaving the NY area for a middle-eastern country is just plain stupid. He makes a big point about the fact that 9/11 happened more than 10 years ago but, fact is, like it or not, we've been in a perpetual state of war ever since then, and we still are. For all intensive purposes, in this context, 9/11 might as well have been yesterday. I think that's what ultimately got him into trouble.