27-02-2013, 12:02 AM
Perhaps.
Certainly the "you can't do anything about it" meme is at the core of the decision to do it the way it was done. I've known this for decades.
But my guess -- and it's no more or less valid than your own -- is that die-hard patriots who had bought the Cuban/Russian patsy construct were, at some point or other, pacified by tall tales of vengeance.
With my novelist's cap in place: Might not the death of Che have been characterized -- secretly and falsely, of course -- as an act of retribution against one of the JFK conspiracy's prime movers?
The way the alleged murder of OBL has been explained?
Certainly the "you can't do anything about it" meme is at the core of the decision to do it the way it was done. I've known this for decades.
But my guess -- and it's no more or less valid than your own -- is that die-hard patriots who had bought the Cuban/Russian patsy construct were, at some point or other, pacified by tall tales of vengeance.
With my novelist's cap in place: Might not the death of Che have been characterized -- secretly and falsely, of course -- as an act of retribution against one of the JFK conspiracy's prime movers?
The way the alleged murder of OBL has been explained?