The US use to be isolationist before 1941. That meant, not getting involved in other nations’ problems. Especially in their wars. Then FDR poked Japan with his stick enough to make them attack a remote island (that wasn’t even a State then) in the pacific, that was a naval base. And that was what he used to get the US into WW2. And primarily into the European theater of it. The war with Japan was secondary. Sounds a lot like this war in Iraq. While the Pakistan one is lesser.

So once again, we’re being steered by contrived events and spin. But that’s how you have to deal with a so-called democratic nation. You mislead them on the fact, so they’ll vote the course you want. And the media conglomerates can’t be counted on to point out the lies. They’re often party to spreading them.

Whether the original design was correct, but contractors didn’t follow the design when constructing the facility.

Or

Whether the design was faulty in the first place, but was faithfully followed by contractors that should have known better.

We can’t really tell which happened from here, but when has that stopped any of us from speculating?

John Dvorak has a chemical engineering degree, as do I. From what I read in the article (from a British chemical engineering society, incidentally, not the US AICHE), the design might have been faulty from the start, then shortcut even more.

John, do you read the article that way?

Profits trump safety. Done on time trumps done right. No doubt there are monetary penalties for being late. That is easily measured. Hard to argue with the calendar. Done wrong is endlessly debatable.

Just keep the donuts coming.

“Angry liberals, your opinions are meaningless because of your hate. Didn’t you noticed the rules changed?”

? Which rules? What change? Or do you mean the Robber Baron take on the Golden Rule: Who has the gold makes the rule?

Shocked that something like this could / would happen with the current administration.

And some people are advocating four more years of the same crap ???