Whole the Maine actually may have been an accident, that explosion was certainly used to get the war juices flowing at fever pitch. The first casualty of war is truth, so your counsel for skepticism is warranted. No government is angelic, certainly not ours or Israel’s. Just consider what the USS Liberty incident says about both of those governments. Might look closely at the rise and funding of Hamas while you’re at it. Knowledge of actual history kind of dulls the thirst for blood that establishment institutions (including the media) work so hard to cultivate in us.
The Maine was an internal coal dust explosion. But there are many such cases like the Gulf of Tonkin as another. The reason we are in this whole thing right now is because of our own CIA throwing the first blow when they created the false flag operation that caused the Iranian coup in 1953.
WE threw the first blow and we are at fault for all the perpetual on going hate they have for us and our allies right now. And why? Because Iran wanted to Nationalize their own oil industry. We helped the British take down a democratically elected president and install a dictator in order to preserve the ability to control their oil.
Before that they were wearing miniskirts, bell bottoms, and listening to Rock and Roll.
There is whole list of these historical wrongs they try to justify as rights. “Who threw the first blow” is ALWAYS the first question to ask.