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Yep, this shows the system works. Taking over Afganistan, owning Iraq, that's all been such a success. Americans are not afraid of a creaking old lawnmower-with-wings flown by a guy named "Ernie." No way we'd panic over that. No way. Right?
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This was a good thing. It showed that our system (the command and communications one) does work as intended. There wasn't any panic; there was an orderly evacuation that went as planned.
Once America knew what they were facing was "Ernie," then things stood down.
What would you have preferred? That the plane just be ignored? Then people would use this as an example of how America was unprepared. I would much rather have a hundred incidents such as this one than one incident where it didn't turn out to be "Ernie" in the end.