The "War on Terror" as Magic Realism

The "fundamentalist Muslim" Mohammed Atta loves booze, coke, pork and sex, and dresses like a Mafia made man.

Flight 77's pilot-hijacker Hani Hanjour is so incompetent a flyer that in August 2001 he is refused rental of a Cessna, yet four weeks later, behind the controls of a commercial airliner for the first time and flying at excessive speed, executes an aerobatic, spiralling descent into the ground floor of the Pentagon.

The anthrax killer, using the US military's Ames strain and increasingly potent spores, writes letters affecting an Islamic terrorist but notably targets the Democratic opposition to the proposed Patriot Act.

The "trapped" Osama bin Laden flies from Tora Bora as US special forces are stood down from his capture.

The twice-reported captured and once killed Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is said nabbed in Pakistan, though even allies are disallowed interrogating him.

The "surrounded" Ayman al-Zawahiri escapes a siege in Pakistan's Tribal Areas, if it's him at all.

Iraq was brimming with chemical and biological weapons until the US invasion, when they suddenly vanished, along with the tens of billions of dollars spent on the war and the occupation.

The late, one-legged Jordanian Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is resurrected from the dead, regenerates his limb and loses his accent.

and stunts have been employed by the criminals within this administration with terrible results.

21st century technology is virtually indistinguishable from "magic" or "miracles" that's why it can make a world of difference in who's hands and for what purpose it is used.

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NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW.

Also that the public, which largely acts with the passivity of an audience, accepts all the contradictions as though rationality and the laws of nature do not apply.