so let's summarize, shall we.
the heroic raid narrative is coming unraveled.
problem.
solution? seal up domestic consent with ritual and send obama for photo-ops to the wtc, connect beginning to end (without meaning, you know, the actual end of anything. the end of bad things happening to the narrative maybe).
then pakistan is saying: you know this heroic raid thing? it might have been against certain rules. like national sovergeinty and un agreements and stuff.
response: pshaw. besides, you're pakistan.
then the un hcr demands an explanation.
response: begin releasing other narratives based on the hard drives etc. that operate as a second-order justification for the heroic raid narrative without requiring that any element in the heroic raid narrative be true.
to wit:
Osama bin Laden 'closely involved in al-Qaida plots' | World news | The Guardian
so here we are, ladies and gentlemen, in the tawdry theater of orwellian stage-management again.
that ugly space of badly done ideological manipulation that's been one of the real hallmarks of this noxious period dominated by the meme "war on terror"
i wonder what the next plot point will be.