No need to apologize. You need to have a thick skin if you want to discuss those topics. "WTC demolition" is a topic, isn't it? It isn't per se a
"...ridiculous and defamatory accusations of U.S. government complicity..."
....................If you do the math and calculate the probability of all the requirements of that event to occur then you will get something like infinite-1.
Theoretically that day never happened. What are we talking about?
It happened. Who did it?
Facts are;
Passenger aircraft have been hijacked dozens of times going back to the 1960's and in few instances did any of these get intercepted by fighter aircraft and in no cases at all did a fighter shoot down a hijacked aircraft.
There is at least one case of multiple near-simultaneous hijackings.
Suicide missions have been carried out both by individuals and as small forces of terrorists.
On 9/11 a terrorist organization simply combined all of the above using the aircraft themselves as the weapon.
The chances of this occuring in the next 5 years, I would have put at near 99% had I been asked on Sept 10/2001.
Even if the plan is thwarted and all 4 aircraft get shot down the terrorists still count a win and the probability of at least the first two aircraft getting through is near 100% given that the common hijacking m.o. is to make demands, not use the plane in a suicide crash.
The probability of the next two being shot down is decreased simply by not targeting the same city as the first two. Its a biiiiiig country, there is a plethora of targets and only so many interceptors. Even if you simply scramble every single (that are in fact armed and have a crew at the ready) you have where do you send them? How do you keep each squadron patrolling a separate area? If it takes 15 minutes to even identify a positive hijacking (given that the hijackers are not being too verbose about their intentions over the radio) and it is going to take 20 minutes to get the hijacked plane to target, you are going to have to be simply lucky to have afighter within 5 minutes of intercept, WITH instructions to shoot down.
, and note that none of the above requires a 'stand down' of the air forces)
YOU concentrate on minutia like a passport's survival or political expediencies carried out by (arguably) the worst and least intelligent, POTUS and his equally bad appointees.
I do note though that your post contains little or no MIHOP contentions and instead you are pushing only the idea that the attacks were allowed to occur.
Can we expect then that you are allowing that the aircraft were responsible for the destruction wrought on 9/11 and not explosives, thermite, or any of the more 'out-there' contentions?
It would be refreshing to have someone who at least acknowledges that their take on the events of 9/11 are all of a political nature.
