If the govt. was capable of something like Operation Northwoods in the 60's?

Question

why are they now incapable of it in the 00's?
Is it a matter of the perceived danger of the enemy?
"Islamic terror" vs. cold war Russia and Cuban Missile Crisis.
I ask this only because of my last question.

I cant ask all of these in the same one or no one will answer them.
Obviously the tense situation made the govt. think this was a viable option back then.
If then why not now?

As you can see I'm on Yahoo7. the Australian arm of Yahoo. Who cares if it is an American company. I never said I hated the US.
I disagree with plenty of its foreign policy though as it affects not just the US but the stability and peace of the entire world.

Contrary to the beliefs of some there is a world outside your borders that is affected everytime the blunders.

Answer 1

"Northwoods" was a PLAN, not an actual occurrence.

Trust me, somewhere in a government archive is a plan for the U.S. to invade Canada, but that doesn't necessarily mean our friends in Toronto need to start digging bomb shelters just yet.

They're called Contingency Plans...and the government spends more on developing them than most people realize. Do you think that the decision to ground every flight in the air on 9/11 was a spur of the moment decision by one FAA official? No. They were simply carrying out a plan that already existed in case of extreme national emergency.

The easiest thing to do (just ask a Nostradamus scholar) is to dust off an old document from the past and re-engineer it so it fits perfectly into your chosen inperpretation.

So, to answer your earlier question...Yes, I believe the government (or at least a government contracted think tank) could indeed come up with a plan to create a domestic disaster in order to further their own agends...I do not believe, however, that the government has the desire or capability to put such a plan into operation.

Answer 2

Actually, it was only a few who though it was viable and it was shot down and never implemented. And even it it had been green-lit in '62, I seriously doubt that anyone would have gotten killed just scared.

There is no need to stage Islamic extremist acts.
We really didn't need to convince anyone of the Islamic extremists terrorist nature. They had been blowing up stuff all over the world. We should have been after them long before 9/11.

3000+ dead on 9/11. Our government didn't do this.

Answer 3

For someone who hates the US so much, you sure do spend a lot of time here on Yahoo, a American Corp.

Answer 4

Because of the civil and let wing watchdog groups!