Really?! Really?!

I know everyone has heard about this by now, but really, who in their right mind would order such an event. CNN is reporting that everyone is really sorry, but that really isn't good enough. The plane that flies the President around suddenly does a low flyby on New York City? Of course people panicked at the site of it. For goodness sake, that'd be like Hollywood buying a bunch of Japanese warplanes and flying them over Pearl Harbor in 1949 without telling anyone they were going to do it. It is at best poor taste and perhaps even criminal. I like what liked what Fran Townsend had to say about it. Crass insensitivity and felony stupidity were how she was quoted. All of this for military photo ops? Seriously? Can't you just take a pretty picture with the darn plane sitting on the tarmac at Andrews Air Force Base? What can the military possibly be doing that they need to take pictures of Air Force One flying amonst the skyscrapers of New York? Oh, but it is a classified, government sanctioned photo op. Whatever the heck that means. I've never heard of any kind of photo shoot involving planes, trains or whatever. I guess they exist, they were just ... classified? As far as I can tell, Louis Caldera, director of the White House military office, claimed responsibility for ordering this "event" and apologized. In a case like this, where you end up terrifying the population of a large portion of New York City, an apology isn't enough. If we assume Mr. Caldera is in fact responsible, and not just a scapegoat, then he needs to be fired. Right now.