Robert Fisk on bin Laden

I know that you are tired, by now, of the nonstop crowing on all the 'respectable television networks' as the celebration of the death of the great Satan bin Laden is endlessly recounted and embroidered with details, as they become available from government sources. Ah! the pleasures of listening and watching the thugs and chicken hawks of both wings of The Property Party  celebrate this little victory over the evil mastermind: so utterly reminiscent of Saturday matinees at the movie houses of old. It plays upon that ever present nostalgia latent in The American Political Melodrama just waiting to be accessed by the canny pol. But here is some actual reporting, done by a master of that now dying craft. Read and savor it as a touchstone for what others might do or could do, if only!

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-was-he-betrayed-of-course-pakistan-knew-bin-ladens-hiding-place-all-along-2278028.html

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Rootless cosmopolitan,down at heels intellectual;would be writer. 'Polemic is a discourse of conflict, whose effect depends on a delicate balance between the requirements of truth and the enticements of anger, the duty to argue and the zest to inflame. Its rhetoric allows, even enforces, a certain figurative licence. Like epitaphs in Johnson’s adage, it is not under oath.' https://www.lrb.co.uk/v15/n20/perry-anderson/diary
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