Posts Tagged ‘Taiwan’

Guns Mean Butter (Or Something)

Friday, January 29th, 2010

It’s another great day for American exports as President Obama proposes to send $6.7 billion of arms to Taiwan.

Hypocrisy? Of course!

But no more so than say all these supposed Know Nothing deficit hawks refusing en masse to vote for Congressional PAYGO budget rules.

Or not being brave or rich enough, if you’re New York’s billionaire mayor, to have a terrorist trial in the Big Apple, while Wichita manages very nicely to try and convict the domestic terrorist who killed the abortion doctor.

Gorilla sums it all up on a bipartisan basis for a country steeped in ungovernable sophistry: “You can’t spell proliferation without pro-life!”

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Guns Before Butter

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

Taiwan may not want our beef, but we sure like beefing up their missile stocks!

It’s hard to understand why the Administration wants to end nuclear proliferation, or expects anyone else to join that party, while continuing to sell conventional arms to pretty much anybody we like.

In this case, we’ve managed to hit the double: cutting off one export market and pissing off the Chinese.

Gorilla asks: “What now, mad cow?”

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