In an online context, "conspiracy lust" is a lot like blood lust.

[OnyxCollie]

54. I'm going before that.

Like Wolfowitz's 1992 memo to invade Iraq, unilaterally if necessary.

Regarding PNAC, their Statement of Principles, which encouraged the US to increase defense spending to 4% of GDP, is even more appropriate for my analysis than Rebuilding America's Defenses.

The "new Pearl Harbor" bit is often misapplied. Having done my thesis on the Japanese internment, I discovered that the military necessity hypothesis was not supported. It was economic factors, i.e., farm corporations, having pushed for legislation to exploit Asians for over fifty years, that profited greatly when the Japanese were removed from their farms. Having put liens on Japanese farms, farm corporations were concerned that they would not get their money back. So they went to the government and said, "Hey, we see you've got a war going on, and you will be in a bit of a pickle if all these crops rot in the fields. Why don't you subsidize some dummy corporations to harvest the crops (so we aren't exposed to risk), that will sell the crops to us (for cheap), so that we can turn around and sell them for a big profit?"

The other two hypotheses, racial antipathy and revenge, appealed to non-rational authority in the mass public (who don't understand things) to permit this to happen.