George Bush says we have to honor the dead by completing their mission. If United Airlines ran their business that way, "throwing money down a rathole" as it were, they'd go out of business.
Check the other side for why...
From yesterday's
New York Times:
Ten years ago, the new Denver International Airport marched boldly into the future with a computerized baggage-handling system that immediately became famous for its ability to mangle or misplace a good portion of everything that wandered into its path.
Now the book is closing on the brilliant machine that couldn't sort straight. Sometime over the next few weeks, in an anticlimactic moment marked and mourned by just about nobody, the only airline that ever used any part of the system will pull the plug. An episode bowing equally to John Henry, Rube Goldberg and Hal from "2001" will end....
[T]he price tag ballooned along with glitches. Construction costs of $186 million were compounded at a rate of $1 million a day for months in 1994 when the airport's opening was delayed by baggage-handling failures. Tens of millions more have been spent in the years since for repairs and modifications.
United, facing bankruptcy, saw the light and bit the bullet on their investment in a failed system based on a flawed idea. When will our president see the light?
Thanks to murrayewv for the rathole phrase, in a comment in Eternal Hope's diary on McCain.