When we shot down the Iranian airliner, I figured the only way for washington to smooth things over was to let them shoot down one of ours. Just like in that movie oh... what was it called? "Catch 22" I think it was. The one where Henry Fonda played the POTUS. Somehow we nuked Moscow, accident,or by an insane general I think. Anyway , in order to avoid ww3 we let the ruskies nuke NYC.
Same deal here IMO.
Maybe the name of that movie was " Failsafe" if I remember correctly.