Quote Originally Posted by xsnaggle View Post
No need to repeat it. I can read . But he obviously meant it would be a different response I'd the had taken down a manned flight. It is that interpretation I was referring to when I said I could understand his response given his US first rhetoric. To suggest he meant it literally is taking people's attitude to him a little far.
My bad, I didn't realise that you read it and still thought he was speaking metaphorically.

Watch the footage of him saying it and then tell me he wasn't speaking literally.