Of course, you always have to be concerned about hijacking. But with the measures that are in place right now, I'd say that probably the airways are as safe as they've been in a good number of years.

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I believe that this is a different war than America has ever fought in the...

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The standards to get in are very high. We don't want to lower those standards.

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Those are the things that, in the wrong hands - and certainly in our war...

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