An engineer background might be able to tell you whether something might fall over.
Since Woodie doesn't even know what the "something" is, where it will be, how many people might not cross because of that "something", and how much those "people" that might not cross would have "cost" us as a nation, I'm thinking his engineering degree isn't going to help.
The problem here isn't the structural engineering analysis of whatever it is people believe is being proposed.