Going to Church

I really get tired of all the conspiracy theories about the Twin Towers and how some of our government officials somehow blew up the buildings. When I learned about the construction technique used, I wondered how they passed New York city building codes. Then I found out that government buildings don't need to meet city building codes. So some egotistical building architect decided that his building should be completely open with no interior walls. So they used floor trusses. These thing will not support much weight. You have seen in the news where big box store roofs fail when the roof drains get plugged or have a heavy snow load. These trusses are made of tubing with plywood for the floor. When the planes hit the buildings, the load from the plane and the water from the sprinkler system were too much for the trusses to hold. Once one failed, it just compounded the problem. The more weight (that dropped) each floor the faster the whole building collapsed.

In a couple of days president Obama will speak to the nation to announce his Afghanistan strategy. Presumably, he will tell us that several thousand more troops will be part of it. With the signing of that authorization of additional soldiers Mr. Obama will have become what we were hoping he would never be: a “war president.”
Little will be known of what went on in those “war council meetings” when military advisers and all sort of other “experts” convened around this young president. I am reminded of imagined accounts of what the truculent military advisers told president Kennedy as he pondered what to do with the Soviet build up in Cuba in 1961 – end-of-the-world scenarios were described in detail to impress JFK and hopefully force him to react with the “only” weapon the Soviets would respect – The Bomb! Kennedy, according to so many accounts, resisted and opted for the naval blockade that eventually remedied the crisis. Maybe President Obama will have the same clarity of mind as he makes his decision.