I don't see how anyone could believe that training was needed in how to storm planes with box-cutters. The pilot training was required and was done here financed mostly by Saudis.
I don't see why, and I don't know what your opinion is based on, other than some over-confident hunches that you seem to have about everything.
What raises my confidence is reading stories about Salman Pak. Or listening to the President describe Iraqi tortures. Whether these stories are true or not, it is all standard war propaganda and has nothing to do with whether the war is in our interests.
Look, on a very basic level you are being ridiculous. Those dudes didn't just get on planes and wing-it or improvise. They had a plan. How/when/where did they conceive of that plan? Somewhere, in some way, and from someone's mind did that plan issue.
That being said, I'm not arguing here that the plan was in any way sophisticated or anything. But you're missing the frickin' point.
Let's suppose Saddam set aside a desert base to "train" young brainwashed men regarding how to sneak up behind Americans on the street and shoot them in the back of the head. Now, OKAY, you and I could both agree to sneer at such "training" and scoff and say "gee that's unnecessary, don't they already know how to point a handgun and pull the trigger? What's to 'train'? Where's the challenge in that? Ha ha ha!".
But the point is that, even in doing something so pointless, Saddam would be proving himself to be our enemy! He would be actively trying to attack us and kill us in some way. It wouldn't lighten my heart all that much just because the "way" he tries to attack us is so stupid and low-tech. That's beside the point. The point is the active attempt to attack us, and not how the attack is carried out.
And again, what you seem to be saying is that as long as the training was low-tech and required little investment or overhead, you're willing to let it all slide with a big guffaw. This is what I referred to as "touching". A less charitable word for it would be "stupid".