Excellent points, McGrath. Whatever way it played out, they got their Pearl Harbor level event, didn't they?

When things happen like that which are just incredibly convenient from the point of view of someone who wants an excuse to go to war...well, I can't help being a tad suspicious.

Those buildings were losing a lot of money too...they were a liability, not an asset. So their destruction was "convenient" in more ways than one, for certain people.