Reply #38: See ..... you're doing **exactly** what I have been doing .......

[Stinky The Clown]

There are *too many* viable reasons, some sane, some a little loony, but every damned one of them viable ..... or not.

Everything from being nazis pissed off about the loss of WWII, to greedy oil robbers, to a kid defending his father's honor.

And as much as a case can be made for all of them, so can a case be made against them. And all cases would be strong.

I guess I just wanted to have a discussion about all this.

JackpineRadical, elsewhere in this thread, makes the case for "overdetermined behavior" wherein more than one reason exists, but all lead to the same action.

I think it is fair to say that we'll have to wait for history to determine what one or two reasons actually *were* the right ones. I just worry I'll be dead by then.