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Take private industry: We just got a brand new iMac (yes, they finally updated the thing). It came in a box, as they always do, which says, or announces, or, rather, confirms, when you open the lid, “Designed by Apple in California”. It’s all part of the brand. In the Bond Movie Dr. No, on the other hand, the silenced revolvers and tarantulas and whatnot don’t say “Designed By SPECTRE in Crab Key, Jamaica”, because Dr No hasn’t gotten around to boasting of his exploits to James yet, and doesn’t want everyone to know where he is. It’s just common sense.

Telegraph - Why the West moves closer to bombing Iran, by Con Coughlin

In their long history of involvement in terrorism, the Revolutionary Guards have become highly adept at covering their tracks. Even though the first Western hostages kidnapped in Lebanon in the 1980s were put in crates and shipped back to Tehran, Iranian officials persisted with the fiction that they were blameless.

Today, the Iranian government continues to maintain its innocence of any involvement in supporting the bloody insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan; this despite the fact that coalition forces regularly discover large arms caches containing powerful weapons clearly marked “made in Tehran”.

You see, it’s just silly.