Four plans, taking off from different places, attempting to hit four different places at about the same time and THAT didn't take any "sophistication?
al-Qaeda and ISIS weren't/aren't a "threat" to us ?
Does he live under a rock?
He doesn't know about Fort Hood, the Boston Bomber Brothers, the several, thankfully failed plots, to blow up Times Square, and many other such things? I bet he doesn't even know that al-Qaedda tried to bl.ow uo the WTC, prior to 9/11 with car and truck bombs, which only managed to kill and injure many, but didn't bring either building down.
Whoever convinced him to run and whoever is for him, all should be given nice padded cells and electric shock treatment. Dr. Ben needs stronger treatments !
Did you deliberately misstate what the man said or did you not bother to read or listen to the video?
Do you really think a group of guys armed with box cutters will be able to hijack planes again and fly them into buildings? The various intelligence departments were disjointed at the time if you will recall? No, it did not take a high degree of sophistication. They caught us with our pants down. It will indeed require a higher degree of sophistication to do the damage that was done on 911. It would require a dirty bomb or the like to equal 3000 people.
The man is not, nor has ever been, a threat to your candidate. He was never going to stay up in the polls. You can cease the vicious, lying attacks. Are you purposefully trying to turn others off to your candidate?
There was a thread earlier with a comment about idiots calling others idiots. I do believe it applies here.
If you have a reading disability, I suggest you work on that before making such inflammatory comments. Maybe read the articles several times first; although there WAS a video to help you, but I digress.
“Ben Carson: Flying Planes Into Twin Towers ‘Didn’t Require a Great Deal of Sophistication”
“He’s a blithering idiot!”
Perhaps you need to re-evaluate what a “great deal of sophistication” really is!
I think Carson was referring to the actual flying of the planes and not the actual planning of the 9/11 attack when he refers to sophistication..
Flying a plan is actually not so difficult as compared to say taking one off and the even more difficult act of safely landing.
EXPERTS SAID HIJACKERS 'MUST HAVE BEEN EXPERIENCED PILOTS'Numerous experts commented that the hijackers who flew the aircraft in the 9/11 attacks must have been highly trained and skillful pilots. Tony Ferrante, the head of the Federal Aviation Administration's investigations division, spent several days after 9/11 carefully piecing together the movements of the four aircraft targeted in the attacks. According to author Pamela Freni, Ferrante's "hair stood on end when he realized the precision with which all four airplanes had moved toward their targets." Ferrante said, "It was almost as though it was choreographed," and explained, "It's not as easy as it looks to do what [the hijackers] did at 500 miles an hour." [1]
Darryl Jenkins, the director of the Aviation Institute at George Washington University, told the New York Times that the men who carried out the attacks "knew what they were doing down to very small details." He said, "Every one of them was trained in flying big planes." The Times reported that a "number of aviation experts agreed" with Jenkins and had said that "the hijackers must have been experienced pilots." John Nance, an airline pilot, author, and aviation analyst, said that "the direct hits on the two towers and on the Pentagon suggested to him that the pilots were experienced fliers." Nance pointed to the "smooth banking of the second plane to strike the towers," and said that "precisely controlling a large jet near the ground, necessary for the Pentagon attack, also required advanced skill." Nance concluded, "There's no way an amateur could have, with any degree of reliability, done what was done" in the 9/11 attacks. [2]
A pilot who had been with a major carrier for more than 30 years told CNN that to "pull off the coordinated aerial attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon ... the hijackers must have been extremely knowledgeable and capable aviators." The pilot added, "They know what they were doing." [3]
Robin Lloyd, a Boeing 737 captain with a British airline, told The Telegraph that "the hijackers had to be experienced pilots with more than just a rudimentary knowledge of navigation." Lloyd, who co-runs the Professional Pilots' Rumour Network website, which is "regarded worldwide as one of the prime sources of accurate information for the aviation industry," said the terrorists at the controls of the hijacked aircraft "had to be 100 percent switched on people, 100 percent experienced pilots, probably military trained." He said someone like Osama bin Laden "wouldn't have access to pilots of the caliber needed to pull it off." [4]
John Roden, the president of Aviation Advisory Service, an Oakland, California, consulting firm, said the piloting necessary to navigate the planes to their targets "was very skillful. This is practically fighter pilot technique." [5] And a U.S. Air Force officer who flew over 100 sorties during the Vietnam War concluded that the hijacked aircraft "either had a crack fighter pilot in the left seat or they were being maneuvered by remote control." [6]
More at The 9/11 Hijackers: Amateur Aviators Who Became Super-Pilots on September 11
Phil's footnote: Dr. Carson in his field is matchless. The last time a civilian aced 500 mph beer pong was never.