Impotent rage? Watch tv
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Ok, ok, I'm in an irritable political mood this morning, bc I opened up NYTimes.com and discovered that the first headline is: "US Secretly Aids Pakistan in Guarding Nuclear Arms."
*clenches fists*
I don't mean that it's a bad thing for us to help a country protect its nuclear arsenal from terrorists or invading countries who might like to wipe out the US and our allies. I'm pretty much in favor of outcomes that don't involve Armageddon, see. But here's the thing that pisses me off (ok, the three things that mostly piss me off - if I listed every single thing we'd be here a while):
#1 - "Over the past six years, the Bush administration has spent almost $100 million on a highly classified program to help Gen. Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan’s president, secure his country’s nuclear weapons, according to current and former senior administration officials."
$100 million???? 
We still have people living in frickin FEMA trailers, New Orleans is still half-destroyed, we can't afford to fix Social Security or welfare, but we can send $100 million to Pakistan to protect, not people mind you, but weapons?
#2 - "But with the future of that country’s leadership in doubt, debate is intensifying about whether Washington has done enough to help protect the warheads and laboratories, and whether Pakistan’s reluctance to reveal critical details about its arsenal has undercut the effectiveness of the continuing security effort."
I just don't get why we ever trusted Musharraf in the first place. Ok, look at it like this: A military dictator comes to the leader of the free world and says, Sorry about the terrorists attacking you; I'd like to build an air force and a nuclear weapons arsenal to help protect you from that happening again. Oh, by the way, I'd also like you to pay for the air force and the nukes, and in return I promise (cross my heart and hope to die even!) that I'll give up my dictatorship and all of its little perks, like absolute power, and make my country a democracy.
Now, I don't know about you, but I might have questioned the good General a little bit there. 'Cause it seems like he sure did get the better deal - without having to keep a single and promise.
And #3?
#3 - "The aid, buried in secret portions of the federal budget".
Ok, I understand that you don't advertise that you're putting defenses up around a nuclear arsenal (that might defeat the point of the project). But still, "buried in secret portions of the federal budget"???? How much of this kind of shit goes on?
When I feel this much impotent rage, there's only one thing to do: Watch tv. I like my government conspiracies with hot guys and gorgeous ladies, lots of action and romance and snappy dialogue. Like "Traveler." Maybe ABC canceled "Traveler" bc they were worried ole Will, Jay and Tyler were gonna end up hitting too close to home with their whole "shadow government" plot line, huh? Yeah, probably not - this is the station that managed to kill "Alias" and has brought "Lost" to the brink of non-watch-ability a couple of times.
But still, I think I'll take phrases like "buried in secret portions of the federal budget" a lot easier coming from somebody like Jack Bauer than from the New York Times. Fiction is just so much more pleasant than reality, isn't it?
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