Why President Obama’s comments made me laugh
It’s rare that I laugh out-loud during a new program, but I did when I watched this clip of President Obama speaking in Thailand about the rights of Israel to defend itself after being attacked by rockets.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Let’s understand what the precipitating event here was that’s causing the current crisis, and that was an ever-escalating number of missiles; they were landing not just in Israeli territory, but in areas that are populated. And there’s no country on Earth that would tolerate missiles raining down on its citizens from outside its borders. So we are fully supportive of Israel’s right to defend itself from missiles landing on people’s homes and workplaces and potentially killing civilians. And we will continue to support Israel’s right to defend itself.
He failed to mention that our drones do the same to Pakistani, Yemini, Somalia and other citizens, resulting in appalling “collateral damage.” If you watch this 60 Minutes interview you’ll hear that as long as we only kill twenty-nine innocent civilians to get one bad guy, that’s okay!
So in spite of what you hear about our government being very, very careful to spare civilians, the CIA has a policy of “Double-Tap.” Double-Tap is having a drone fire a second missile when people come to the rescue of people trapped by the first explosion. Is there any way that the CIA knows who is at the site, when it fires its second missile?
No wonder they hate us. Or to be specific, not us but our government and it’s failed foreign policy. Just watch this video, especially at minute 7:45. You’ll understand why they hate us, and how we’re making it worse.
From The Guardian newspaper –
I wonder how much cash is being used to bribe the Pakistani government officials not to complain too loudly? I imagine that they don’t accept $100 dollars bills anymore, preferring 500 Euro notes. A suitcase stuffed with 500 Euro notes will have seven times the $100 bill density and avoid the Pakistani officials from getting backache while enroute to Switzerland.
