Comments on: It wouldn’t be Thanksgiving without a false flag terrorist attack in which innocent people are murdered in cold blood

By: A. Peasant

A. Peasant — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:57:00 +0000

This is where the corporate media echo chamber comes in handy, you know, to ‘catapult the propaganda.’

By: MarcLord

MarcLord — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:07:00 +0000

There’s some residual Scandal Exhaustion at work.

Algorithmically, you’d have to figure 1 + 4x casualties over proximity to last event for a successful false flag. India’s 9/11 doesn’t seem to clear the bar. One crazy guy walked into a Jewish Center in Seattle and caused more fatalities.

By: A. Peasant

A. Peasant — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:53:00 +0000

Well, at least the unraveling process happens a lot faster than it used to. Maybe the terrorists should do a cost-benefit analysis: if they plan and prepare for years, but the cover-up and confusion lasts only a week, is false flag terrorism really worth the investment? I suppose only if you really, really LOVE inflicting terror and death on innocent people, or if you can guarantee knee-jerk reactions within hours or days, tops.

By: MarcLord

MarcLord — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:19:00 +0000

Not sure if this is a false flag or not. (But then, how could I be?) If it is, Pakistan is provoking a partition of Kashmir, which should happen anyway.

ISI-run Pakistan is obsessed with buffers between it and India, urgently now, and Iran as usual. A tribal Afghanistan suits their interests beautifully, and a separate bad-ass Kashmir would be a perfect heat sink for India’s attentions.

(Disclosure: I am a long-time admirer of the ISI and Pakistani statecraft. I just wish they hadn’t helped blow up my city.)