To: yonif
Sounds like it was an honest mistake and not some sinister plot against the US by Israel that the conspiracy theorists would have you believe.
6 posted on
10/10/2003 9:35:15 AM PDT by
SpaceBar
To: SpaceBar
What drives the conspiracy stuff (and the USS Liberty sailors who are convinced it was a deliberate attack) is the absolute terror that people have of randomness, and how uncomfortable it makes people feel that terrible things can happen without a larger meaning or purpose behind it.
People like to believe that when something terrible happens there was some great evil conspiracy behind it; it gives the loss more meaning and is strangely comforting.
Which is why the idea that the attack was simply a series of mistakes compounded by bad luck (as seems obvious to me) is so revolting to a lot of people.
22 posted on
10/10/2003 10:02:34 AM PDT by
John H K
To: SpaceBar
Cool-aid in the cups on the right.
58 posted on
10/11/2003 1:30:32 PM PDT by
wtc911
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