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two possibilities:
1. bin laden has every interest in another bush term insofar as bush provides him with the best publicity a person in his position could hope for---you want to be the Nightmare of the West?
well if you just tell three friends "i am the Nightmare of the West" then who really cares?
but if you can make the occaisional video and release it and have your status as Nightmare of the West made and remade for you, then hey...
obl and bush need each other.
2. although i do sometimes wonder if bin laden actually exists. sometimes he seems just too easy. there is no informational basis for this...but i do find myself thinking that if bin laden did not exist that someone would have to invent him. his face and occaisional television appearances are central to the whole "war on terror" project. he is a structural necessity, like judas in the gospels.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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