_Narrative_

[Wilson Gray]

Patrick Corcoran asserts that the [jury-rigged] armored vehicles [now
being built and used by the Mexican drug cartels] are not
game-changers. "Whereas the 'narco-tanks,' as the vehicles are often
called, make for great blog-fodder and provide entertaining videos,
seeing their rise as a significant escalation in Mexico's drug war
would be wrongheaded," writes Corcoran. "In the end, the 'tanks' are
[just? merely? only? none of the preceding?] a sexy _narrative_."


What is it that I'm supposed to understand the meaning of _narrative_
to be, in this context?

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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