[quote=captcha][What I laugh at is the notion of a secret entity capable of planning and executing conspiracies that involve a lot of people and span years.[/quote]
How about one called “Al Qeada”;) I mean come on, it does not get more comic book super villain than that. We seem to have official state sanctioned conspiracies. Of the every present Muslim menace that seems to be always hiding in important geo-strategic areas that were mentioned in think tanks as key areas for other reasons. And of course, we are invading, occupying and drone bombing multiple countries, while killing countless innocents – to root out this nefarious group to protect americans from future attacks. When we know damn well this type of action inflames “extremism” and serves as a recruiting tool. But, we don’t want to release a picture because it might inflame passions!
Now, you can take several different views on this. You can take a anthropological view of past civilizations, that there is always a ruling class. And that ruling class always feeds the population propaganda for desired behavior – essentially myth making. Which is kind of inline with a Marxian view of class struggle. Where the upper class always conspires against the lower classes.
The secret “cabal” is not secret. It’s the “western” hegemonic capitalist imperialism system, centered in the US, with the military, intelligence agencies , think tanks(economic and foreign policy) and banking/currency system and web of core corporations that surround it. This body constitutes a unified whole and can be called “they”. The over-arching goal is to control political entities, major resource deposits and currency systems – and of course “narrative”. “They” tend to set up a good verse evil narrative for their naive population.
Global hegemony takes years of planning and logistics constantly change but the core goal remains They don’t call it hegemony for nothing. This requires constant conspiring coupled with public perception management not to upset the morals of population. Back in early Rome they would conquer for the glory of it. When Christianity started to spread the population started require a “casus belli” or pretext because collective morals changed. I assume this required a new level of propaganda to achieve imperial goals.
[quote=captcha]How did ‘they’ conclude he was in there? According to the reports, ‘they’ did not. ‘They’ concluded an important person likely lives there – bin Laden’s courier at the very least – and took the risk[/quote]
Sure, I can accept that. But we still have the reports of the “compound” being cased for months. This stake-out seems to have yielded no proof. So, I guess you could say it was a pretty ballsy move especially in a country were the public is getting increasingly angry and protesting for innocents being killed by accident. I mean what is wrong with these people? Don’t they understand it is for a greater cause then there little unimportant, brown, muslim lives!
Every where you look you have changing stories, spurious rational and just general sense of palpable bullshit that goes along with this comic book ending.
