I'm going to go ahead and preface this with the fact that I don't believe Pearl Harbor was a false flag, because I can easily see people pulling that out of this.
it's "disgusting" that anyone would suggest that Pearl Harbor was a false flag.
And this is why false flags work. If you go against the story being pushed, it's "disgusting". It's taboo to even question the fact that it happened the way they say it did. I think that is dangerous to be honest, because it really reinforces just how effective a false flag can be.
It's not like these ideas don't get proposed. This might not have happened, but it shows what kind of ideas get pushed around by people who want to start wars.
Operation Northwoods was a proposed false flag operation against the Cuban government, that originated within the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) of the United States government in 1962. The proposals called for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) or other U.S. government operatives to commit acts of terrorism against American civilians and military targets, blaming it on the Cuban government, and using it to justify a war against Cuba. The plans detailed in the document included the possible assassination of Cuban émigrés, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas, hijacking planes, blowing up a U.S. ship, and orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. cities.[2] The proposals were rejected by the Kennedy administration.[3]
The fact that this was even proposed makes me think we should set the bar pretty high when a tragedy happens that causes a country to have a reason to invade or go to war. When we go to war, I just want to know for a fact that we went to war for the right reasons, and not because some war hawk thinks it's in our best interests.
We have to be able to look at tragedies critically. It's as simple as that. We have to be able to ask for real proof. We have to be able to prove to the world within a reasonable doubt at least that the tragedy is exactly what we say it is.
I'm in agreement in thinking it's disgusting if conspiracy theorists come up with insane conspiracy theories where they think they have it all figured out because some banker talked to some other banker the day before and they think the banker's cousin's husband's friend was in the area on that day. The burden of proof is obviously on the one making the claim.
However, if the media is showing pictures of a bombed kindergarten and saying "A senior warchief told us that this was an act of war by Dictator Sukmidik so we're sending our navy to destroy all their military bases", the burden of proof lies on the senior military making those claims. I think the world deserves to know at least some of that proof before more people die. I don't care how big that crater of a kindergarten is, I don't care if it's 1 kid versus 100 kids and a pregnant teacher and her 5 adopted children, however major the tragedy is it doesn't matter. There is a real investigation that needs to happen, because strong emotions should not be enough to prove to the country that we need to retaliate.