How secretive and shabby the Americans are - The Drum Opinion (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

How secretive and shabby the Americans are - The Drum Opinion (Australian Broadcasting Corporation): "These laughing, flag-waving, crowded scenes outside the White House and across America have no precedent (except, perhaps, in the South when Lincoln was shot) and it is to be wondered why they occurred.

There was a magical-realist quality to Osama Bin Laden. He looked like the risen Christ, and was often thought dead and came always back to life. His broadcasts needed always to be authenticated because the CIA wanted him dead. He’d humiliated them so enormously they kept saying he was dead. He was ‘on dialysis’, they asserted, wrongly; he had to be dead by now. 9/11 was so clever. He had to be dead.

And once again they are covering up, and in denial."

I HAVE NO DISAGREEMENTS WITH THIS OP_ED PIECE.