"You don't think it can happen here?" Or, why if you don't buy "conspiracy theories" you have no understanding of history.

"'You don't think it can happen here?  Do yourself a favor...  Google COINTELPRO,  or Operation Mockingbird, oh, and especially Operation Northwoods.  You might also look into Operation Ajax, Operation Gladio, Operation Mongoose, and the so-called Strategy of Tension.  And those are just the ones that have leaked.  There are others.  Unless you think the Reichstag Fire and the Gleiwitz incident and the Russian apartment bombings were unique to their respective times and places and could never happen elsewhere, least of all in America.  But you don't strike me as that naive.'"
'Was nine-eleven an inside job, too?'
'It wasn't, though the way it's been exploited, it might as well have been.  But are you arguing that because not all cataclysms occur behind a false flag, that none of them do?'"

- From Barry Eisler's excellent new thriller The Detachment.