HOW DO YOU LOCK THE TERROR OUT....
"How do you lock the terror out..... When you've already... INVITED IT IN!," the ads for 1992's "Single White Female declared. (The movie also featured Jennifer Jason Leigh uttering the immortal line to Bridget Fonda, uttered to explain why the Leigh character dispatched the Steven Weber character with a stiletto heel blow to the head: "he came in my mouth, and then he tried to beat the shit out of me." She lied about the second part. (Notwithstanding this seemingly important fact, if the order of these events were reversed, would she still have killed him? Just asking).
Anyway, the bungalow bonobos at the White House are doing their very best to copy the ad copy of SWF by outsourcing the inspection and security of six of our eastern seabord ports to, I kid you not - the government of the United Arab Emirates, a patron and a patron saint of terrorists. Two of the September 11th hijackers were from UAE (the others were from our other "ally," Saudi Arabia). UAE is one of the three countries on Earth to (still) recognize the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan. It refused to cooperate with even the pitiful attempts we made to investigate Osama bin Laden's finances in the wake of the catastrophe. The list goes on.
So, why are these petty thugs now set to be in charge of port security? Well, until a few days ago, Bush didn't even know they were supposed to be, until word leaked from Congress that the contract was about to be sealed. The government department that awards such contracts (this department actually consists of 11 agency heads) apparently didn't know about the deal either; Donald Mamserfeld claimed that he just found out about the deal a few days ago, when the story that the deal was about to go through broke. Some Presidencies are run so badly that a person in Washington can feel like he's waiting for a bus that will never arrive. This Presidency is run so badly that people in Washington are no longer even sure if Washington even has a bus line.
Bush, on the defensive, tried to justify the selection of UAE by using the typical circular logic: "We wouldn't have selected them unless they are capable. And they are capable. So we selected them." He also made a risible anti-discrimination plea: "It's not fair to discriminate against countries that are fully capable of doing the work." Yeah, I guess that, given there are maybe four or so rich nations on Earth, and that we've not alienated maybe only these four, it's not a good idea to piss them off too - er, "discriminate" against them.
Anyway, the bungalow bonobos at the White House are doing their very best to copy the ad copy of SWF by outsourcing the inspection and security of six of our eastern seabord ports to, I kid you not - the government of the United Arab Emirates, a patron and a patron saint of terrorists. Two of the September 11th hijackers were from UAE (the others were from our other "ally," Saudi Arabia). UAE is one of the three countries on Earth to (still) recognize the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan. It refused to cooperate with even the pitiful attempts we made to investigate Osama bin Laden's finances in the wake of the catastrophe. The list goes on.
So, why are these petty thugs now set to be in charge of port security? Well, until a few days ago, Bush didn't even know they were supposed to be, until word leaked from Congress that the contract was about to be sealed. The government department that awards such contracts (this department actually consists of 11 agency heads) apparently didn't know about the deal either; Donald Mamserfeld claimed that he just found out about the deal a few days ago, when the story that the deal was about to go through broke. Some Presidencies are run so badly that a person in Washington can feel like he's waiting for a bus that will never arrive. This Presidency is run so badly that people in Washington are no longer even sure if Washington even has a bus line.
Bush, on the defensive, tried to justify the selection of UAE by using the typical circular logic: "We wouldn't have selected them unless they are capable. And they are capable. So we selected them." He also made a risible anti-discrimination plea: "It's not fair to discriminate against countries that are fully capable of doing the work." Yeah, I guess that, given there are maybe four or so rich nations on Earth, and that we've not alienated maybe only these four, it's not a good idea to piss them off too - er, "discriminate" against them.
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