Saturday - February 07, 2004

So these are our friends? (part 3)

For your befuddlement and consternation I bring you this. It is another example of doing something that, as sure as God make little green apples, the future will see democrats and liberals everywhere using this incident as cannon fodder for fusillades of accusations as to why we did nothing to penalize Pakistan for nuclear proliferation. It's wonderful how hindsight can be so 20-20 to these bootlickers.

Yet, this is a classic case of "dammed if you do and damned if you don't" to those who study foreign affairs and are somewhat aware of history.

And to many Americans it raises a visceral feeling of detestation for a class/type/race of people who would do such a thing and feel proud about it.

Once you start to peel the layers of this onion, however, what our administration has done so far is the right thing. I'm still pissed about it but sometimes we have to just let it go in the hopes of later on getting some benefit from it. Will the strategy work? Who knows? It did not when we armed Iran and they turned on us. It did not when we armed Iraq years ago. But when the strategy works, the advantages gained far outstrip the disadvantages. Just look at how we handled the USSR and East Germany---political calculations by President Reagan that resulted in their complete annihilation as a threat to us.

But allow me to bring to your attention only one layer of this onion.

What if it were one of OUR scientists that did this? What would the world have said and done? I'll tell you: we'd have been pilloried, trade agreements might have been voided, foreign payments suspended, boycotts galore. What has the world done so far against Pakistan? All I hear is those embarrassed clearing of throat noises and all I see are those furtive eye glances in all directions minus the one where it ought to be pointed when one is caught out in a hypocrisy. The UN? Neutered eunuchs incapable of much except pushing pieces of paper and wetting themselves with fear. After all, soon as one of theirs was attacked in Iraq they turned tail and ran. Yellow bellied coward bastards!

But this Paki assclown sells completely out and not only does he get pardoned, he is considered a hero!!

Why? Because a country smack in the middle of a bunch of other Muslim countries was able to develop a nuclear weapon. Because they felt they had something to prove. As Allan mentioned in a previous post, with 20 percent of the world's population, just what, EXACTLY, have Muslims contributed to the betterment of the world in the past 400 years?

This is what we have to deal with. Of course, we may never have found any of this out if we hadn't invaded Iraq and begun a cascade of events that led to this moment. Korea would not have relented. Libya would not have opened their country to inspectors (resulting in a paperwork trail that confirms the confession), etc.

So we are on the right track. As they say, keep your friends close and your enemies closer!

P.S. you gotta love a guy who's name has "perv" in it: Pakistan's President Gen. Pervez Musharraf

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