TrainCamelspotting II


British bitterness nonwithstanding, let's take a look at what would motivate the UK to supply military equipment to a country may end up making war on, Iran?

Rupert Murdoch's titty-free rag, The Times, tells us that,

Around 250 sets of military night vision equipment sent to Tehran from Britain appear to have been passed on to the Lebanon-based militia group which it funds and supports.

They were sold under an export licence in 2003 to help the Iranians to monitor the desert and mountainous border regions with Afghanistan...

Through the UN’s Drug Control Programme (UNDCP), Britain supplied Tehran with bullet-proof vests, and soon afterwards, Mr Cook visited Tehran where he was told of other equipment shortages, including night-vision equipment.

Now, here we have a clear cut and fresh case of the true cost of the war on drugs. In order to fight the evil of junkies killing themselves, thus purifying the gene-pool of future headaches for coming generations, Britain has unwittingly enabled Hizbullah to navigate in the dark. Not to be let off in all this is your buddies, the United Nations. Oh well, the lesser of two evils, right three-monkey commentariat? Try telling that to Israelis burying loved ones right now.

Also, speaking of pragmatism, let's not forget about the last crop of super-dooper allies, the Taliban, and the 43 million we gave them to obliterate poppy fields in Afghanistan, about the only thing they can grow there. It's looking like the only thing that got obliterated was a couple of Bhuddist statues, cause the fields sure as hell never went anywhere.

Now, do you really think none of that money has the blood of the 1000 dead and wounded Americans in Afghanistan on it? Don't forget this was given to them a little less than a year before 9/11. Democracy over there doesn't entail boondoggles for local constituencies, just the old-fashion variety of bribery. Now tell me, drug-warriors, how many of you actually have the balls to tell the wounded and the suvivors of the fallen the bullets they caught, bought with your tax dollars, was worth keeping some loser from ODing?

And be honest...