17th June 2010, 9:54 PM
It's not that it's "hard to believe". You can point to motive all you want, but without evidence, it's all circumstantial. The simpler answer is that the people in charge are all idiots invading based on misguided ideology.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)