Maybe I’m by myself of this one, but I thought we’d had enough of getting shot with our own weapons. The government calls it ‘blowback,’ which is when some military operation comes back to kick everyone directly in the balls (see: Afghanistan 1970 to right damn now). I call it bullshit. Like most people with half a brain know, we armed the Afghan fighters to ‘resist’ the Commies in the Soviet-Afghan War. Turns out, the Afghans hated our guts too, and now look where we are–stuck in that shithole getting shot by our own weapons. That, comrades, is major league blowback.

So imagine my suprise when I see the headline today that King George II and his lackies (lookin’ at you COONdelezza) have decided that the surefire way to hold Iran in check and stabilize the Middle East is to GIVE THEM $43 BILLION IN ARMS. What kind of fuckery is this? The ‘plan’ involves giving military assistance weapons to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Israel, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman.

This, of course, is right after news that King George II wants to have a ‘Middle East Peace Conference,’ that at this point seems to amount to him crying that nobody will help him punk Iran. Does it really help us to have even sharper divisions in the Arab world? I can almost guarantee that there will be some type of confrontation with Iran before this bag of assholes leaves office next year. Maybe they are trying to start another war in an attempt to clean the egg off their faces for the current hugely disastrous failure. Iran, of course, released a statement in response to the plan:

“America has always considered one policy in this region and that is creating fear and concerns in the countries of the region and trying to harm the good relations between these countries,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini told reporters in Tehran. “What the Persian Gulf region needs is security, stability, peace, prosperity and economic development,” he said.

What can I really expect though? These are the same lunatics that think giving teachers guns in their classrooms will stop school shootings. I guess if you follow that flawed logic than you somehow believe more weapons in the Gulf will help peace, and I wish the best for you and your dementia.

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