Make Believe Wars...Real Soldiers

When Israeli Air Force jet fighter aircraft and Israeli Navy motor torpedo boats attacked the United States Navy technical research ship USS Liberty in International waters north of the Sinai Peninsula, about 25.5 nautical miles northwest from the Egyptian city of Arish, on 8 June 1967, during the Six-Day War, killing 34 crew members (naval officers, seamen, two Marines, and one civilian, wounding 171 crew members, and severely damaging the ship--and both the Israeli and the US governments so-quickly concluded that the attack had been a "mistake"--A little light went on in my head: The attack had been deliberate, agreed upon by both governments, because: (1) The Purpose of Military Engagements in the Modern World of Make Believe Warfare is to Use Up (Expend) Matériel and Personnel (Soldiers), thereby both justifying and acquiring further tax-funding for them; and (2) The Primary Function of Military Personnel is to Inflict Casualties, and the Concomitant Secondary Function of Military Personnel is to Take Casualties.  

So I immediately perceived that the CIA  (or MOSSAD), not some mysterious "Islamic Jihad," had perpetrated the Beirut Barracks Bombings on October 23, 1983, killing 241 American servicemen and 55 French paratroopers.  And the identity of the perpetrators of the spectacular murders and controlled demolitions of September 11, 2001 at the World Trade Center in New York City was similarly, plainly obvious to me.  I wouldn't call myself a Conspiracy Theorist, because I see nothing at all theoretical about it.