The plan to engage Operation Northwoods (of which I knew about long before this was posted) doesn't surprise me, given the Cold War paranoia at the time. People were scared, and governments were looking for anything to pounce on to blame the other side.
Doesn't it remind you of a more recent scenario, one that seemed to rise after the 911 paranoia? "You're with us or you're against us." We all know where that came from, and frankly, it's just history repeating itself.
I'm not big on 9/11 conspiracies (or any conspiracies for that matter), but governments have proven, time and time again, that they are capable of even the most ludicrous, headscratching plots. And sometimes they actually follow through with it. The existence of nuclear weapons are cold, hard evidence to that.
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