[WS:] That is a nice and succint summary that gets the essence of what I argued. Thank you.
Joanna: "You accept his translation of the political into the aesthetic. I do not."
[WS:] I would hesitate to say that OBL transformed, translated or whatever the political into a spectacle. That might be said of Bader Meinhof, but not OBL. I do not think you can find anything more devoid of politics than OBL & Co.
And of course I very much disagree with transforming the political into a spectacle, of which the US politics is a prime example. Or let me put in a different way, I would not mind translating the political into the aesthetic if the end product is a symphony, not a cacophony or kitsch.
Somebody: "You're ridiculing the bourgeois justice system? I thought you were opposed to infantile left-wing anti-statism."
[WS:} No and yes. The point was that the lefties invoke the justice system when it suits them and condemn them when it suits them. They are just a slightly different allovariant of the genre practiced by Limbaughs, Becks & Co. - anything goes when it comes to discrediting their anti-heroes or defending their heroes. My satire pertained to this, and not to the justice system.
Shane: "All of Bin Laden's alleged crimes amount at most to a slow day's work for Adolf Eichmann."
[WS:} Autres temps, autres moeurs. There is no comparison.
Wojtek