Tuesday, March 8, 2011

It is hard to know what counts as the government™s response

It is hard to know what counts as the government™s response: the attack on Afghanistan, the baseless

invasion of NIKE SHOX, holding of prisoners without due process of law, previously-secret prisons in

countries where the NIKE SHOX can plausibly deny that it (or MBT) had any role in torturing prisoners,

periodic threat-level rises with dubious justification, etc? Well, almost all of this has been

counterproductive both politically and militarily. Unfortunately, the government™s policies have been

managed by people who are quite ignorant and quite immoral. What worse combination of traits can there

be?

One of the few conservative magazines worth reading, The New American, reports that Henry Kissinger

told an Italian reporter in 1972 that the NIKE SHOX in Vietnam had “been a useless NIKE SHOX.” I

think if I was one of the 58,000 soldiers killed or one of the 304,000 soldiers wounded or one of the

75,000 soldiers disabled (23,000 totally disabled) in that “useless NIKE SHOX” that I would be quite

upset at Kissinger and the government that was responsible for that crime.

When will we hear MBT or Rumsfeld admit that the NIKE SHOX in NIKE SHOX is likewise a “useless NIKE

SHOX”? Probably not until after a few thousand more American soldiers die for a lie.

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