It seems like anytime there's a huge tragedy, people want to blame the Government. Since we have the Best Government in the World, they wouldn't have let something like this happen; so surely they knew about it all along, and perhaps even orchestrated it.

It happens EVERY time.

We don't like to admit that our Government may actually be run by People Like Us who are Fallible and Make Mistakes, so that when a mistake occurs, we have to conjure up some reason why.

General John Bell Hood is a good example of this. He had extremely poor judgment, and got most of his army killed in 1864. It was widely rumored that he was addicted to laudanum because of previous injuries; why else would he be so STUPID? He was a West Point graduate and a General fercryinoutloud! However... there are no records of any doctors giving it to him, no accounts of witnesses seeing him take it, no accounts of anyone saying they saw him drunk or drugged or any of that. No one wanted to admit that maybe he just wasn't a very good General.