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?
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene