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These guys are sick of us.
This is, as usual, equally infuriating and illuminating. Via Bloomberg:
The U.S. House passed a $96.7 billion war spending bill that includes money for President Barack Obama’s troop buildup in Afghanistan, a strategy some Democrats said they doubted would work.
Of course it won’t work. We’re spending $97 billion dollars to bomb and occupy a country with an annual GDP of $21 billion. Yes, you read that right. What on earth is the conversation like in D.C.?
A: ‘Is it a bad idea?’
B: ‘It certainly appears so – the worst I’ve seen in a while. It has all the hallmarks of complete disaster: very little planning, terrible leadership, and a history of failure. I almost forgot! Its also unbelievably expensive.’
A: ‘Oh, is this the same Afghanistan that the Soviets couldn’t occupy?’
B: ‘The very same one.’
A: ‘And we’ll be using the playbook from Iraq?’
B: ‘Most assuredly. In fact we’re going to bring Pakistan into the mess here as well – they have nukes you know. Put a little spice in the old curry, eh?’
A: ‘Oh, I see. Delicious. Let’s fund it.’
B: ‘Yes, what the hell. It’s not our money anyway.’
Apparently parody is pretty close to the bulls-eye; it went more like this:
"I frankly have very little faith that it will work,” [David] Obey said of Obama’s strategy for the region. “Those governments are corrupt, they are weak, they are chaotic, they appear to lack the focus and cohesion and effectiveness to turn the countries around."
Who is David Obey? The bill’s chief sponsor. You literally can’t make this stuff up. This is a 97 billion dollar blunder that we are knowingly walking right into. At least when it does fail, and the money that was stolen to cover the cost turns out to have been wasted, they’ll be able to pat us on the shoulder and tell us ‘yeah, well to be honest I kind of doubted it would work.’ The real howler from David Obey (what a perfect name for a politician) comes later:
“it’s a mess and let’s hope that, with God’s help, we can get out of it in a reasonably decent time.”
With God’s help? Really? You sponsored the legislation. How about you help a bit, David. The only thing he forgot to say was “I just wish there was something I could do about it.”
Sometimes I'll wake up with a throbbing headache, and have vague memories of one-eyeing a shot glass filled with warm amber liquor. I'll remember having sloppily thought 'this is a bad idea, but I'm going to do it anyway.' The difference is I pay for my bad decisions myself, and nobody dies. I fear our $97 billion hangover is really going to hurt.
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