Reply #135: Ok, listen to yourself

[Az]

Minimize damage. They knocked the two tallest buildings in the world down. Any other damage is just chump change. And you think they wanted to minimize damage? Then why not take out the Statue of Liberty? Much less economic cost and enough terror to scare the populace into compliance. They struck the single most devastating economic target they could get to. This was about causing damage. And it succeeded.

Ok, cards on the table. Why do you believe the terrorists could not have managed to pilot some planes into the buildings and that caused the damage? Why does it have to be so orchestrated? Look inside yourself and see what it is you are really struggling with. Where is the sense in limiting damage in the most damaging scenario ever carried out in US history? To repeat Maccovern's excellent list this was the minimized damage of the day:

1 World Trade Center
2 World Trade Center
Marriott Hotel
4 World Trade Center
5 World Trade Center
6 World Trade Center
7 World Trade Center
St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church
North Bridge

Sustained damage, but would be restored or already restored

1 Liberty Plaza
East River Savings Bank
3 World Financial Center
2 World Financial Center
1 World Financial Center
4 World Financial Center
N.Y. Telephone Building
90 West Street
Winter Garden of WFC
Millenium Hilton
Federal Bldg (90 Church Street)

8 Buildings at the center of the US economic district were destroyed.
11 Buildings were damaged and saved.

This is not minimizing damage. This is obliteration. So why in the midst of this destruction do you believe there was a need to take the risk to plant charges to create a controlled demolition?

Let us try another tact. Is that the best way they could have done it? Such an operation would have required an army of participants. You would need engineers to survey the buildings and plan the explosives. You would need the cooperation of security teams inside the buildings that would die in the resulting explosions. You would need the cooperation of nearly every civic service within NewYork to close its eyes while you planted the charges and waited. To what purpose? The risk increases exponentially with each person you add to the conspiracy. You think they can find that many sociopaths that will stay silent? It simply doesn't work. Its too great a risk when they have so many alternitives.

You can have your conspiracy without all the grand schemes. You only need George and Co to ease back on security and press some buttons and the terrorists will follow through on the rest. Jet planes crashing into buildings do a lot of damage. Even if the buildings had not fallen over this would have shattered our sense of peace. There is no need for more damage than that.

Think things through logically. What was the intent? What is the most effective way to achieve it? What is the least amount of risk needed? Then apply what we do know. Two planes crashed into the tallest structures in the world. The structures fell down causing massive collateral damage destroying a number of close by buildings. How are the planes crashing into the buildings not enough to send terror throughout the nation? Why the need for more damage but oddly controlled damage? It doesn't fit.

Seriously I understand your need to make things fit your beliefs. I feel your pain as well. But needing something to be the truth and reality are two different things. Fight for that which is most likely. George and Co left our defenses down and practically invited terrorists in. They don't need more than that for their purposes. They knew the type of damage they wanted to do to us and merely had to let them do it while making sure they themself were secure and far away when it happened.

Peace