There are plenty of old airliners stored in the desert. Why don't we give some of them to Al Queda? They could put hundreds of martyrs on each flight. In exchange for free airlplanes, we could insist that they only blow them up over the water. We could give them some Death Row inmates if they absolutely need Infidels. Classic win-win solution: They go to heaven, and we empty our junkyards and prisons.
And we implode old skyscrapers all the time. Why don't we let terrorists do it? Again, they'd actually be doing us a favor. We could even supply the explosives. Another classic win-win situation: Someone else does our dangerous demoliton work, and they get to go home all proud and happy.
The president's advisors seem to lack creative conflict-resolution skills. I don't know why they aren't approaching the problem with common-sense recommendations like these. What, are they just sitting around waiting for Al Queda to ram a train into the White House?
Did we just sit around waiting after the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? I think terrorists would flock to a deal like this like salmon to Capistrano.