Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Process again
Two especially egregious examples of Process over Fact.
(A) After the Sergeant carefully demonstrated the utter insanity and futility of our presence in Afghanistan, the Army and the administration are setting up 4,674 new Task Forces, which will give lifetime employment to 57,212 lawyers, to Investigate This Heinous And Unprecedented And Unthinkable Action. Same old Lone Gunman shit, as always. Meanwhile, it's forbidden to move or touch anything while an Investigation is underway, so we'll stay in Afghanistan forever.
Correct response: If we were sane, we would listen to what this desperate Sergeant is telling us. We'd hear his message loud and clear: "You have given your soldiers an absolutely impossible job. There is no mission. There is no goal. There can never be a mission or goal. It is logically and physically impossible. All we can do is mindlessly kill or be killed." And we would respond to his message by GETTING THE FUCK OUT. NOW. NOW. NOW. THIS SECOND. OUT. OUT. OUT. OUT. NOW. NOW. NOW.
(B) China is keeping its minerals to itself. Nothing wrong with that; the advantage of being a nation is that you can decide what to sell and what to keep. We don't like this particular keeping because we've been too fucking stupid to keep or develop our own minerals. Our initial response to China's economic normalcy is process. We're begging various international agencies, owned by China, to investigate China's actions and reach a conclusion.
Correct response: We must recover our own nationhood, which was lost 23 years ago. An actual nation would respond to China's move in one of two ways: (1) Cut off all trade and outsourcing that benefits China. Buy back their bonds so they don't have a handle on us. Resell the bonds at a profit, by force if necessary, to the traitorious corporations that have served China, and require those traitors, by force if necessary, to keep the bonds until maturity. Or (2) devote a huge crash program to developing our own minerals. Eliminate EPA. Open all Federal land to exploration and mining. Redesign our idiot shit so it doesn't need any exclusively Chinese materials. This will require us to give up some of our idiot shit entirely, which will be a pure gain for Americans. And it will also reduce our dependence on the Chinese slaves who make our idiot shit, and provide an ancient unknown thing called "work" to skilled Americans. ¶ 5:04 AM
(A) After the Sergeant carefully demonstrated the utter insanity and futility of our presence in Afghanistan, the Army and the administration are setting up 4,674 new Task Forces, which will give lifetime employment to 57,212 lawyers, to Investigate This Heinous And Unprecedented And Unthinkable Action. Same old Lone Gunman shit, as always. Meanwhile, it's forbidden to move or touch anything while an Investigation is underway, so we'll stay in Afghanistan forever.
Correct response: If we were sane, we would listen to what this desperate Sergeant is telling us. We'd hear his message loud and clear: "You have given your soldiers an absolutely impossible job. There is no mission. There is no goal. There can never be a mission or goal. It is logically and physically impossible. All we can do is mindlessly kill or be killed." And we would respond to his message by GETTING THE FUCK OUT. NOW. NOW. NOW. THIS SECOND. OUT. OUT. OUT. OUT. NOW. NOW. NOW.
(B) China is keeping its minerals to itself. Nothing wrong with that; the advantage of being a nation is that you can decide what to sell and what to keep. We don't like this particular keeping because we've been too fucking stupid to keep or develop our own minerals. Our initial response to China's economic normalcy is process. We're begging various international agencies, owned by China, to investigate China's actions and reach a conclusion.
Correct response: We must recover our own nationhood, which was lost 23 years ago. An actual nation would respond to China's move in one of two ways: (1) Cut off all trade and outsourcing that benefits China. Buy back their bonds so they don't have a handle on us. Resell the bonds at a profit, by force if necessary, to the traitorious corporations that have served China, and require those traitors, by force if necessary, to keep the bonds until maturity. Or (2) devote a huge crash program to developing our own minerals. Eliminate EPA. Open all Federal land to exploration and mining. Redesign our idiot shit so it doesn't need any exclusively Chinese materials. This will require us to give up some of our idiot shit entirely, which will be a pure gain for Americans. And it will also reduce our dependence on the Chinese slaves who make our idiot shit, and provide an ancient unknown thing called "work" to skilled Americans. ¶ 5:04 AM
