Aeronautical Engineer says Official 9/11 Story Not Possible

TRUTH wrote:
In reality, a clueless non-pilot would encounter almost insurmountable
difficulties in attempting to navigate and fly a 200,000-lb airliner into
a building located on the ground, 7 miles below and hundreds of miles
away and out of sight, and in an unknown direction, while flying at over
500 MPH - and all this under extremely stressful circumstances.

Sir,

I can see by your postings that you're passionate about this, so I
don't want to be all dismissive and patronizing like some others have
been. Instead, let's just talk about it for a little.

It's obvious that you have been deeply affected by 9/11 and that you
find yourself unable to accept that we were simply caught unawares by a
cunning foe, as we were in Pearl Harbor. Instead you blame the
government. Not only do you blame them, you attribute the whole event
to them. It was their doing. A massive conspiracy with an equally
massive coverup.

Why would terrorists go to all that trouble, anyway? In the end they
only took down a couple of buildings and 3,000 civilians. I say "only"
3,000 not to be cruel, every one matters, but given their efforts over
the past two decades, it was hardly worth the cost. The puppet masters
are actually smart - they would have anticipated the counter-attack and
the loss of Afghanistan. They knew the hawks in the White House
wouldn't just let it go. It was a counter-productive thing to do. So
why do it?

As a country we consantly project our power and intrude in other
people's business with abandon. What can they do to the last, great
superpower? Terrorism is the only recourse the "little guy" has againt
the "big guy". You can't go to war against a vastly superior force.
The official story is that 9/11 was a demonstration. A demonstration
that we are not invincible. It was an effetive one.

We in the West have a fast-food culture. We want everything to be
immediate. We'll trash the "5-minute Abs" tape and buy the "3-minute
Abs" DVD. We want an immediate response to a stimulus. That's not the
way of the Eastern nations. They are, architypically, more long-view.
They can wage war over 100 years, slowly. No rush. Lay low. Make the
enemy bankrupt themselves by forcing them into a protracted engagement.
One stealthy terrorist can tie up an army.

9/11 has bolstered the spirits of the terrorists. It's an incredible
PR win. We're piling billions into Iraq and Afghanistan and losing our
freedoms over here. We've gone from "we'll never rest until Bin Laden
is caught or killed" to "well, he's not that important anyway". We're
losing troops daily in Iraq. Slowly. Painfully. Constantly. While
the country decends into civil war.

Frankly, we're losing. And we're losing because:
+ You can't kill an enemy you can't see.
+ New terrorists are being recruited faster than we can kill them.

So although they took a short-term loss (Afghanistan), they're winning
long-term.


So, why would the government orchestrate the attacks? To give them a
reason to go into Iraq? To given them a reason to massively increase
military spending? Perhaps one or both of those. What would it take
to achieve it? How many people were involved? How many branches of
government? Were the plane passengers put on trains and sent into the
forest for execution like some Nazi war story? Were the planes flown
to secret airforce bases for storage? Does that mean air traffic
controllers were involved? Did no one see the planes land? How many
construction workers did it take to wire the WTC with demolition
charges? Did no one notice the miles of cable and holes in the walls?

I tend to believe that two people can keep a secret only if one of them
is dead, and a government conspiracy of this scale probably covers 100s
or 1000s of different people. All of whom have to buy-off on the
execution of 3000 civilians.

Do we live in that country?


On your points, you use the word "fact" a lot, but I think you use it
incorrectly. It is a "fact" that the WTC towers fell. It is a "fact"
that planes flew into them. What happened next is perhaps open to
interpretation by experts and non-experts.

Another poster provided FAA records showing that Mohammed Atta was both
commercial and instrument rated - hardly a "clueless non-pilot".
Flight instructors maybe had poor overall opinions of the pilots, but
you don't know how long they trained away from the flight school. You
don't know how much "book time" they had studying avionics. The attack
had years of planning behind it. I guess they could have spent that
time playing pinball... but maybe instead they were studying. That
something is hard does not make it impossible.

What about general airline hijacking policy. Before 9/11 wasn't there
a policy of compliance? Do what the hijackers want and the FBI will
get them on the ground. Are you sure the pilots didn't navigate to the
area before the terrorists took over? On the morning of 9/11, putting
a knife to the throat of a flight attendent immediately got you the
captain's attention. He may be ex-air force but he's not going to lose
a member of his crew. He's going to do exactly what you say. "Fly me
to New York". "Yes sir. Right away sir". I suspect the terrorists
said they would land somewhere and make their demands. By the time the
truth was known, it would be too late.


Still, all that said no one can difinitively say what happened on
board. All we can do is choose to believe a story. One story
presented by experts from one camp, and an alternative view from
another camp. Like JFK and faked moon landings, people believe what
they want to believe and for every argument there is a
counter-argument. The strength of each is in the eye of the beholder.

So, wrapping up...

I can take the step of saying, whilst I choose not to believe you, your
scenario is possible. I find it unlikely, but it is possible that the
government, envious of Middle Eastern oil and eager to boost military
budgets. formulated a "shock and awe" campaign on the American people
and the world.

The question is, can YOU take a reciprocal step? Can you concede that,
whilst it's not something you believe, there is a chance that following
years of intrusive foreign policy, a terrorist mastermind carefully
planned and executed a suicide campaign against the WTC and Pentagon?
That we were all caught unawares and that the Bush was the one in shock
as he read "My Pet Goat" to the kids in the classroom?


If you can't accept the possibility that your view is in error, then
you're not a clear, reasoned thinker. You're a preacher, preaching
your faith. Which is fine, too.. I guess.

Matt.