Okay, just to show that I can be paranoid, too …
The American public is very warm-hearted. Really. We hate to see blood being shed. So even with the greatest provocation, there are a lot of people who really hate that we’ve started a bombing campaign in Afghanistan, let alone the length of time its run.
So why aren’t we hearing more protests? Because it’s not getting a huge amount of air time?
What is getting air time?
Anthrax.
So if you wanted to wage a war, but you didn’t want the public ragging on you about it, could you think of a better distraction than some relatively harmless, but high-publicity, anthrax scares?
(I don’t really believe this. But I just wanted to show I could Theorize Conspiracies with the best of them.)