> I didn't say it was easy to bring down the towers. That's your misstatement
But you said:
> It ain't rocket science to bring down a building. The main structural columns of the towers were accessible from the towers' 15 miles of elevator shafts.
Let's simplify it to see if we can skip the song and dance routine on this one: If you are now conceding that it wasn't possible to access enough "main structural columns" through the elevator shafts to bring down the building, then this argument is finished. If you are still maintaining that it was, then you are simply wrong.
> Creating confusion is a common tactic of those who need to create confusion to cover up their incongruencies with reality.
If there is any confusion about the argument you are trying to make or my rebuttal, then it's your own doing. How about you start clearing it up by stating exactly what your argument is, and if you're still confused about why I dispute it, I'll give i another crack. Your rhetorical games are amusing, but they are getting to be like hearing the same joke over and over.
Oh, but wait, there's more:
> The entire core, of 47 columns linked by 6" concrete floors, 87 feet by 133 feet, will be equated to a few surviving columns (the "spire"
only by someone who is either very ignorant or who finds it rhetorically useful to pretend he is.
As I clearly said, that's not my term and I really couldn't care less what you call it. But you try to make it yet another word game, while hypocritically accusing me of doing that in the same sentence. Please try again to find a "rhetorically useful" dodge for the salient issues: 1) The core was not designed as a free-standing structure, so it's completely unsurprising that it soon collapsed. 2) You have presented no logical reason for why "they" would go to the extra complexity and risk to bring down that part of the core. It's just another of your "just so" stories; that's what they did so they must have had some reason.
> I never said I wouldn't believe anything that came out of NIST.
Ah, I guess I just assumed that because you called them liars. I presume you mean that if they found evidence of thermite, you'd believe that? 
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