What better way to keep the "Axis of Evil" (Iraq, Iran and N Korea) in the limelight than being blamed for an unprovoked sinking of a ship used for training. Iraq has been dispensed with but at huge cost and definitely not for our benefit.
Will it happen in the Persian gulf? Don't forget the Operation Northwoods and more importantly the USS Liberty because the latter actually occurred, and had it not been for an heroic crew that somehow sent radio distress messages describing the attackers and a Russian sub recording the event, we might have attacked Egypt.
http://www.gtr5.com/Reports.htm The biggest false flag question of all is - were we given the convenient truth about 9-11, or were there other actors involved? That event has been instrumental in drawing us into multiple wars, that have done immense harm to our nation with no signs whatsoever of abating. There were beneficiaries of 9-11 and America and we Americans were not one.
There is always interest by some to keep world events stirred up, because it keeps interest in war instead of peace, and promotes arms and defense spending and power.
With the USS Maine, and all potential similar incendiary events, the question that needs addressed first must be about motive, and who will actually benefit in the end, and not jump to conclusions and blame the obvious perp. Did the leaders of Spain benefit from the USS Maine sinking? They lost the war and much land including Philippines, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Virgin Islands, etc. That they would lose the war was a given. So why would they sink our ship?
Or was this a USA capitalist imperialist foray as stated on the monument to the USS Maine in Cuba "victims sacrificed to the imperialist greed in its fervor to seize control of Cuba", which "alludes to the theory that U.S. agents deliberately blew up their own ship to create a pretext for declaring war on Spain".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Maine_(ACR-1)
Sorry I don't trust governments and their collusive interests.