CIA director Peter Goss says he has "an excellent idea" where Osama bin Laden is. So why hasn't the U.S. captured him? "When you go to the question of dealing with sanctuaries in sovereign states, you're dealing with a problem of our sense of international obligation, fair play," Goss said.
So, let's get this straight. The Bush administration has no compunction about invading and occupying a sovereign state for no good reason. But when it comes to apprehending the suspected mastermind behind the worst mass murder in U.S. history, all of a sudden they're sticklers for sovereignty.
"America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.
"Mass-market nostalgia gets you hopped up for a past that never existed. Hagiography sanctifies shuck-and-jive politicians and reinvents their expedient gestures as moments of great moral weight. Our continuing narrative line is blurred past truth and hindsight. Only a reckless verisimilitude can set that line straight."
--James Ellroy, American Tabloid
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"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."