I am very sorry for the attack on WTC and Pentagon, but most of the statements made in this post are not completely true, or just plain wrong. to say that no airlines, except eastern european airlines, operates anthing but US aircraft is not true at all. the european Airbus company is a _major_ threat to Boeing, and the Americans did not manage to build SST airliners like the Concorde and the Russian TU 144.
this was just one example of the errors and "only partly true" statements in this post.
So, again, I am sorry for your loss, but please try to understand and know history before making such bold statements and putting other countries down.

Regards
Eivind Lunde
Oslo, Norway