What if the Government Didn't Control the Skies?

People of faith might react, just on a society level, that they would well, first of all, lose all, all confidence in the government. That'si still, i'm not clear why that's a compelling reason. I mean, you said that the pentagon would be embarrassed tat these, they don't control the skies, and things like that. But e why does it matter? Since very little seems to have happened that that's affected people on a wide scale.