Best Of Friends? CIA Considers Israel One Of Its Biggest Spy Threats

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9. comparing that to Gulf of Tonkin shows why casus belli are usually bullshit

In the same decade, two attacks on US warships, one that caused severe damage and loss of life, and the other that even the president at the time says may not have happened at all.

If we really went to war over stuff like that, you would expect us to go to war for the first and ignore the second, but we did the exact opposite.

That would be a good question to ask about in a presidential debate:

"If you decide it is necessary to go to war to protect some strategic interest or because of pressure from the business community, will you be honest with the American people, or will you make up some bullshit excuse like every president who has started a war has done (with the possible exceptions of the Civil War, World War II, and Korea)?"