and beefing up security at the airports could have prevented the attacks. It is an insult that they snuck on boxcutters and used fake IDs to get into the country and get on the planes. This should not have happened if security and the government had been on the job and not asleep at the wheel. While I blame the terrorists for the attacks, I have to place some of the responsibility for the attacks on the US Government and the company running the security of the airports for not being able to detect or stop the terrorists.