{"id":443,"date":"2011-10-19T10:21:43","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T08:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/borkedcode.com\/wp\/?p=443"},"modified":"2011-10-19T10:21:43","modified_gmt":"2011-10-19T08:21:43","slug":"wow-republicans-and-foreign-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.borkedcode.com\/wp2\/2011\/10\/19\/wow-republicans-and-foreign-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Wow. Republicans and Foreign Policy."},"content":{"rendered":"

What a bunch of cartoon characters.\u00a0 Seriously.<\/p>\n

To sit around and listen to Michelle Bachmann bloviate about how nations we have \u201cliberated\u201d should compensate us must have drained every Republican on the planet of any extra neurons they had left.\u00a0 I mean, holy fucking Christ on a hooker, is there anyone who is really that fucking dumb in Congress?<\/em><\/p>\n

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I would expect that level of ignorance from a high school drop-out in Branson, Missouri.\u00a0 But this is supposed to be one of the best people Minnesota can offer us.\u00a0 Hey, Minnesota?\u00a0 I know you can do better.\u00a0 Get rid of the brain-sucking alien and elect a real person, please.<\/p>\n

Allow me to point out a little factoid here.\u00a0 Let\u2019s use Iraq and Afghanistan as examples, since they\u2019re obviously what she\u2019s alluding to.<\/p>\n

In both cases, we \u201cliberated\u201d them from regimes that we, ourselves, installed and backed<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 WE put Saddam Hussein in the cat-bird’s seat by funding and supplying him with weapons <\/a>in order to fight the decade-long Iran-Iraq war.\u00a0 WE funded Al Qaeda and the Taliban at their inception<\/a> against the Russian invasion of Afghanistan.\u00a0 That was US.\u00a0 That we later had a falling out and bombed the fuck out of both of them was simply the inevitable conclusion to a long and painful lesson in nation-building.\u00a0 To claim that the citizenry of those countries somehow \u201cowes us\u201d for getting rid of the regimes in question is a lot like your plumber coming over to your house uninvited, reversing the flow on your toilets, then coming back a month later after your house is full of liquid shit, turning the flow off, and handing you a bill for the service.<\/p>\n

And even if we hadn\u2019t forced those regimes on them<\/em>, to present the idea that we should demand in some piratical fashion that all this grandstanding about bringing freedom to them \u201cdon\u2019t come for free\u201d is so amorally mercenary as to leave one speechless.\u00a0 Furthermore, it is a fantasy bordering on certifiably insane to think that we could bomb the living fuck out of everyone in either country \u2013 including hundreds of thousands of civilians (and in the case of Iraq, the entire city of Fallujah, using banned white-phosphorous rounds, a war crime on top of a war crime) \u2013 and then to turn around and expect them to be grateful to us for it?<\/em><\/p>\n

Someone send these dumbass candidates off to the Soylent Green factory.\u00a0 It\u2019s quite obvious that they are incapable of any level of foreign policy beyond \u201cPull My Finger.\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll give one kudo out here, though \u2013 and surprisingly, it\u2019s to Ron Paul.\u00a0 At least he was able to remind everyone that Ronald Reagan was a back-door negotiator with terrorists (and a treasonous one at that \u2013 as he began negotiations on his own, prior to his election to Federal office, in order to degrade his opponent\u2019s standing with the American people prior to the election<\/em>). \u00a0He also pointed out that not one of the people currently held in Guantanimo Bay has ever been convicted of a crime<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

And some of those people have been there for over ten years. \u00a0Anyone who was snapped up in there as a late-teens kid on the streets of Khabul is now a late-20s prisoner. \u00a0A DECADE of their lives have been spent there, against our Constitutional law, against the will of our people, and with your endorsement<\/em>.<\/p>\n

That’s your legacy, Republicans. \u00a0How anyone can call themselves a moral person and still consider themselves a Republican is quite literally beyond my capacity to understand. \u00a0It displays a severe case of cognitive dissonance, worthy of a textbook study. \u00a0These amoral, evil fools are the best among them.<\/p>\n

Stew on that.<\/p>\n

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