16-07-2010, 06:41 PM
His family is key in any attempt to understand this.
Amiri has returned to Iran, and appears to have been reunited with his family.
Propaganda photos of happy families are easy to fake: they take a second and can last a generation.
However, if Amiri was a real CIA defector, the classic narrative of such events would lead one to have expected retaliation against his family whilst he was overseas "selling secrets".
I wonder how this will play out.....
Amiri has returned to Iran, and appears to have been reunited with his family.
Propaganda photos of happy families are easy to fake: they take a second and can last a generation.
However, if Amiri was a real CIA defector, the classic narrative of such events would lead one to have expected retaliation against his family whilst he was overseas "selling secrets".
I wonder how this will play out.....
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war