05-03-2016, 07:46 PM
I didn't say they faked Bin Laden's death, just that the official story is highly suspect. We saw all the assembled heads of state watching...something, that was probably graphic and startling. That much can be true. That it was the live stream death footage of Bin Laden? That we don't know. Truth is a very well-lubricated sliding scale. I find it implausible that even with 100% accurate intel and a red pointy arrow on Google Maps saying Osama is right Here, that our leaders would text each other and say, "hey the series finale of Smoke a Terrorist is on, you wanna come over and watch it with us?"
Perpetrating a con takes four things: motive, opportunity, desire, and a willing victim. The US govt motive is obvious for stretching the truth: we just spent billions on two different wars whose myriad stated goals were eventually distilled into "get Bin Laden for 9-11." We created a boogeyman, and Americans need closure. Hence willing victims. We wanted him dead, they gave it to us. It would not have been satisfying to come away from all that waste with just a rumored death, or a quiet betrayal by his own people, or a quiet end of renal failure. No, it had to be big, and actionpacked, and have some American heroes.
Here's the tell: nobody in that room who could rightfully crow a little, even in a low-key classy way, has ever really done so. It has been as effectively buried as anything can be. Which usually indicates a story one doesn't want too much attention drawn to. Why that is would be pure speculation. And we all know how FOTY feels about that.
Perpetrating a con takes four things: motive, opportunity, desire, and a willing victim. The US govt motive is obvious for stretching the truth: we just spent billions on two different wars whose myriad stated goals were eventually distilled into "get Bin Laden for 9-11." We created a boogeyman, and Americans need closure. Hence willing victims. We wanted him dead, they gave it to us. It would not have been satisfying to come away from all that waste with just a rumored death, or a quiet betrayal by his own people, or a quiet end of renal failure. No, it had to be big, and actionpacked, and have some American heroes.
Here's the tell: nobody in that room who could rightfully crow a little, even in a low-key classy way, has ever really done so. It has been as effectively buried as anything can be. Which usually indicates a story one doesn't want too much attention drawn to. Why that is would be pure speculation. And we all know how FOTY feels about that.
Thank god I am oblivious to the opinions of others while caught in the blinding splendor of my own cleverness.