The first and only lesson that should have been burned into the national skull is this: no airline hijacking involving Muslim fanatics has ever ended with the passengers walking off the plane. Not once. Criminals after money or attention sometimes negotiate, land, and walk away. Islamist suicide squads do not. With them, the only rational response is immediate, total, and violent resistance. Hesitate and you die. All of you. Nineteen scrawny Islamic death-cultists seized four airliners. Two hundred forty-six passengers and crew outnumbered them more than twelve to one. Their arsenal? Box cutters and theatrical “bombs.” None of the hijackers stood taller than 5’8”. Most weighed less than the average American woman. I know because I pulled their driving records and photographs myself for the media. These were not Navy SEALs. They were mid-sized fanatics with hardware-store weapons. The arithmetic is insultingly simple. Had the passengers risen as one and treated the cockpit door li...