Us Sells 21 Tons of Tear Gas to Egypt

You could have a thousand monkeys typing and they’d probably come up with more solid foreign policy than the State Department.  It wasn’t a week ago that State Department officials were hounding the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces in Egypt for slaughtering protesters and they’ve already begun to openly parade their default policy of hypocrisy and idiocy through 21 tons of tear gas exports to Cairo.  Local reports indicated that the Suez port had received two shipments of tear gas from one American company Combined Tactical Systems in late November before being discreetly shipped to the Ministry of Interior’s storage facilities in Cairo. 

For a nation that certainly enjoys flouting the idea of safeguarding human liberty, it sure doesn’t mind making a fat nickel off suppressing it.  Despite the violent curtailing of protests in Bahrain earlier this year and American frowning and finger-wagging, the government still cut a deal to sell arms to Bahraini tyrants.  Last month, the US was one of a less than a dozen countries that refused to acknowledge Palestine’s UNESCO recognition.   Topping the list of the American habit of aggravating the international scene is President Obama’s visit to Australia in order to christen the establishment of a  newmilitary base.  The reasons for why? Full-blown manure.  Japan asked American soldiers to leave because the same kind of assertive Crime and Punishment behavior that defines our political leaders was put into practice by Marines raping local women.  The China paranoia?  The Chinese population could piss all at once and drown us, that’s about as much a legitimate threat they pose, excluding the trillions of American debt they own. 

Peter Van Buren’s book “We Meant Well” reveals a tell-tale number more specifically about the State Department revue in Iraq.  Van Buren discusses yards of waste and ineffective programs ranging from bicycle gifting to kids while the streets remain unpaved, culinary classes for widows, and two million dollars granted to a chicken processing plant years ago that has yet to process a single chicken.  With 16,000 State Department personnel in the largest US Embassy in the world, you’d think stability in Iraq would have been achieved long ago.  How someone like Biden, who has to show up unannounced and at night in Baghdad, can even begin to consider labels like ’success’ and ’stability’ kosher adjectives for the current situation in Iraq is beyond me.

House-keeping in DC is about as ratty as a male dormitory.  Domestic policies under both Congress and President Obama are flagrant across the board and ongoing foreign policy measures continue to morph Lady Liberty into a giggling whore.