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Air marshals fatally shot a man who claimed (falsely, it turns out) to have a bomb in his backpack at Miami International Airport.

Any definitive judgments at this point are premature. We don't know all the details.

But in a day and age of shoe bombers and suicide bombers and humans who are capable of killing coldly and indiscriminately, any person who claims to have a bomb and then refuses to surrender to authoriites leaves them little choice.

At this point, it appears to be a tragedy, yes. But a nearly impossible one to avoid.

What if the man had been telling the truth amd the marshals hesitated?

We'd be second-guessing their slow reactionas, I'd wager.