“REPORTER: Outsiders will see things you don’t.
MRS. CARTER: Things we don’t want to see.
FOREIGNER: Of course you don’t. You won’t look at the conspiracy.
COMMENTATOR: This was one man acting alone…a single man’s resentment.
FOREIGNER: Impossible. There’s no political logic in that…Who are the leaders? What is their ideology?
COMMENTATOR: Thought’s not a political weapon for us. We don’t kill people for ideas…Politics takes on the tradition and style of its locality. We are a pragmatic people.
FOREIGNER: Assassination is never personal. It is directed against a regime…
COMMENTATOR: Your suspicions come from another continent…
FOREIGNER: How literal and naïve you Americans are. It’s why you’ve done so well in economics.
–from “The Assassin,” by R.L. Gaudino