General Longstreet, in his old age, was asked why the War was lost-was it the failure to go right at Gettysburg, the class conflict between the planters and the common man, disloyalty on the home front?
After a minute's reflection, the old General said,
"I always thought the Yankees had something to do with it".
I was rather shocked at the arrogance of some of the engineers. As if, in 1967, the original engineer should have somehow planned for terrorists to fly airplanes into the towers. That's what brought them down. Not poor fire protection, not poor design. 2 - 767's, full of jet fuel, crashing into them.
The other engineers used a "could of, would of, should of" way of thinking as a sure thing. Monday morning quarterbacking at its worse.
Now, I do think that there are lessons to be learned for future buildings... and they were right to investigate the falls... but I was getting upset with the older white haired engineer because he had a "should have planned for" attitude.