While driving cross country the missus and I keep wondering what would happen if a similar event took place in America. What if a K-12 school in Illinois or Texas was overrun with terrorists and hundreds of children were killed? I’m sure others have though of it too, but I fear/suspect that the political consequences would be enormous. In a sense it’s an excellent illustration of how al Qaeda really doesn’t understand America. They think smashing office buildings and blowing up planes really impresses us because these are the things they resent about us. But if they really wanted to maximize disruption they’d ignore New York, LA and Washington altogether and concentrate on Kansas, Wisoconsin or Texas. They wouldn’t crash a plane into the World Trade Center, they’d crash it into a school.