So the Iranians were going to use an American to hire a Mexican to assassinate a Saudi in Washington. Oh, ok. Let me just read from last night's NPR transcript for you. I have excerpted all you need to know:
SIEGEL: Now, the Iranians have called this a fabrication, someone called it a distraction to keep Americans from thinking about our domestic problems. How convincing is the evidence of Iran's involvement here?Obviously this is going to turn into another case where the FBI tells some half-homeless loser that they're going to set him up with his own moon base and spacekreig Nazi saucer command; dude goes down to the public libarary, poops and shaves in the bathroom, gets online and tells facebook that he is going to launch an interstellar invasion of all the capitals of the planet earth; the Feds pinch the guy; and Eric Holder goes before the American People to cry Klatuu Barada Nikto until the terror cows come home. Robert Meuller says it sounds like a Hollywood script. Like the one that your waiter "accidentally" left at your table, maybe.
GJELTEN: We really don't know.
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Yes, but this President hasn't lied to us (yet) about a casus bellum, so let's give him a chance.
Speaking of Hollywood scripts, a DVD I saw over the weekend, and found very satisfying (so much so that I watched it twice over a few days, something I rarely do) is Unstoppable, starring Denzel Washington and Chris Pine as railroad workers. The good guys win - that's why we love fiction. Based on real events, it is stated, but it takes place in an imaginary Pennsylvania.
Somebody should add a Best Questionable Occurrence that "Sounds Like a Hollywood Script" Leading to the Überproportional Stink in my Favorite Stall category.
The Golden Globes maybe.
The Rebirth of Security Institutions Out of the Spirit of Entrapment
Dionysian violence quashed by Apollonian order.
It's good to start with a nice, rich base of Iranians and Mexicans and drug gangs, but for true fear-mongering this dish needs a dash of pedophilia and perhaps a pinch of Bernie Madoff. Maybe they'll throw that in when this is done simmering.
I'll bet this horseshit story lasts, at the very most, through the weekend, before it disappears down the memory hole.
-- sglover
Plan 9 from Abadan?
this President hasn't lied to us (yet) about a casus bellum, so let's give him a chance.
R2P
Not to worry, conflicted mod-progs---familiar, comforting signposts will yet appear. By the time Hollywood green-lights it, the final script will reveal that American oil companies and banking houses conspired with European right-wingers to bring off the entire sequence. Chomsky and Palast are already well into a rough draft.
"The idea that they would attempt to go to a Mexican drug cartel to solicit murder-for-hire to kill the Saudi ambassador? Nobody could make that up, right?"
-Hillary Clinton
Mention Noam's name again, Ink, and you'll get some of that rough trade you claim to occasionally require ...
OH THANK GOD the G MEN are so,um "vigilant". If not for the unceasing "vigilance" of the FBI, one of their plots to blow up a communter train might get out of hand and succeed, and then we would be forced to drone bomb the Greeks,the dirty lazy deadbeats.Not at all Like Germany.Now THERES a handsome country for you! yowza.
That video is a fucking classic.
Kudos IOZ.
It also turns out this guy is, was an OPPONENT of the regime. But you know whatever...
Saudi Arabia to U.S.: "help us defeat our regional rival or we will fly planes into more of your buildings !"
Explosions are messy, but in the abstract I don't really care if the Mexirianians assassinate some Saudi official. I would think the Iranians have more resources in Saudi Arabia (10-15% Shia, and not too far as the crow flies), though maybe that would mean waiting longer for him to come back. But that just makes me wonder what the payoff is from assassinating an ambassador anyway. Would that seriously hinder the Saudis?
@tdaschel
US: "Wait! What was that you just said!?"
SA: "That we would fly more planes into y--"
US: "Not that. The thing BEFORE that!"
These scripts write themselves.
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