I think that most of your points are reasonable and well made, but I don't see any need to jump into conspiracy mongering regarding Ramzi Yousef. One point that Eisenhower (and others) were making about the military industrial complex is that will find any pretext to perpetuate itself. They don't have to pay someone to create a pretext, they will just capitalize on anything (particularly committed by someone who is dark-skinned, or having a different religion or language) that harms some segment of America, and blow it up into a threat to all of America/democracy to justify unleashing their ammunition on it.