Reply #19: Agreed. [View All]

As I've said elsewhere, these experiences are out of the realm of normal human experiences, so the brain tries to process them. When the brain refuses to accept them at face value, it looks for alternative explanations. Boom, a conspiracy theory is hatched.

In some ways, it's easier to explain away something as abhorrent as what happened today with a neat, clean theory, because the alternative is to accept it at face value. An American lost his life because of our arrogant President and his bullshit policies. A group of people killed an American in retaliation for what our soldiers did in Iraqi prisons.

What I honestly do not understand, however, is why everything has to be a conspiracy. Maybe I'm just too straightforward in my opinion of this, but it seems pretty likely to me that the CIA wasn't involved and that this isn't a bunch of "white guys", as the theory goes, dressed up to look like Iraqis. That explanation just seems ludicrous and contrived.