Reply #114: I find incompetence plausible in the case of the explosives [View All]

[petgoat]

because nobody had ever demolished a building this big before, the temptation to err on
the side of excess was great since erring on the other side would result in discovery,
and since the pool of available experts who could be trusted to keep silent or who could
be inconspicuosly killed was probably limited.

I do not trust incompetence theories for the FAA and for the intelligence community because
all they needed to do was follow normal procedures and do their jobs and perform certain
simple and obvious actions.

If someone wanted to sabotage the job, do you really feel that using a ridiculous amount
of explosives would actually be the method they would employ? If that truly is what happened,
I think it has proven to be an extremely ineffective tactic.

It looks pretty effective to me. They covered lower Manhattan with dust four inches thick,
they introduced an asbestos hazard, they created photogenic pyroclastic clouds, they forced
the destruction of the steel.

Who exactly do you think they were trying to communicate with by using this act of
sabotage?

The world. The skeptics, the scientists, the journalists.