Let's Let Them Off Easy

The 19 28 train bombing assassination, which goes by several different names, by the way, my favorite is the shang solin explosion death incident. A couple of japanese mid level, junior officers, including maybe as low as a lieutenant's involvement, but a colonel and a captain maybe, took it upon themselves to plant this bomb in order to create an incident that required a response. That would have triggered something that may have led to the takeover of manchuria. If you wanted to craft an analogy here, youd have to start playing with things. I a us Central command forces in the middle east, having some mid level officers there, independently decide we're going to spark