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AirlineSafety.Com is dedicated to the subject of airline safety and seeks to provide a free-market forum for the discussion of policies and issues which are germane to airline safety. The Editor believes there are too many hidden political axes grinding in much of the media today on the subject of airline safety. Every writer has his bias, but few are willing to state up front what that bias is. It is very important for the reader to understand the bias of the writer. Policy recommendations are too often governed by such bias instead of being governed by rational conclusions flowing from a dispassionate analysis of all available facts. Therefore, the Editor of this web site states up front that his bias is oriented along free-market lines. He believes in free and open discussion on the issues and that Government regulation and coercion usually makes things worse, not better. The long history of incompetence and bureaucratic bungling of the FAA, in regards to its supposed mission to guarantee our safety, is an ongoing case in point. With that free-market bias in mind, the reader can more accurately judge whether Editorials on this page tend to make conclusions which are in rational harmony with the facts, or if they only flow from that bias, regardless of the facts. Quotations, relating to the subject of international terrorism, which quite obviously, is directly related to the subject of Airline Safety. If America is ever to triumph in its war against Islamic terrorism, we must get past the idea that we are its root cause. Specifically, we must get past the idea that a suicide bomber is just a peace-loving Muslim who, if we hadn't set him off, would be growing figs and building sandcastles. Strapping explosives to your torso, marching yourself into a crowded marketplace and blowing yourself up in order to slaughter as many civilians, including women and children, as you can is a profoundly demented act, an act which undoes a dozen or so millennia in the moral evolution of the human species. Such an act is not ...