Wave of Mutilation

Wanted:A "rogue state," needed by President Bush to justify spending $60 billion as the down payment on a National Missile Defense system.

How convenient for him that Russia is trying to re-establish itself as a new superpower, with Comrade Sta... I mean Putin implementing his new form of dictatorship.
It seems like the Alliance of Evil, that is to say the UK and the US, is more and more willing to plunge the world into another Cold War. What with the Litvinyenko radiation poisioning and the Russian bomber planes being intercepted in UK airspace, one can only sit and wonder how long it'll be before those itchy trigger fingers on both sides of the Iron Curtain slip up. These days, true power is dictated by the amount of missiles a country can produce in order to beat their neighbors into submission. We've seen time and time again that richer countries sell the poor countries shiny new ballistic missiles, only to invade them ten years later claiming they're a threat to world peace. But who sold them the weapons in the first place?
'Oh, shit, we forgot,' they scream hysterically, 'you can't get angry at us! We were simply protecting our foreign economic interests.'

But £60 billion dollars on a missile defense system? And a missile defense system that has every single chance of fucking up and leading to the downfall of a country, and the deaths of millions of innocent lives? Thank god that at least the system has been overhauled from the ancient 1950s model, where a counterattack stood a high chance of wiping incoming missiles from the radar, so that they could not be intercepted.
Now the army is using the Pathfinder missiles which carry a payload equal to the explosive power of twenty-five Hiroshima style atomic bombs. During the crucial phase of development, did anyone stop to think about what might go wrong? Say there's an error with one of the payloads, and it explodes in mid-air, spreading deadly radiation into the atmosphere, poisoning millions? The government might cover it up. "You're not sick... You're not sick... You're not sick..." and then, when it's too late... "Oh, you ARE sick. Sorry, there's nothing you can do except sit and wait. Here's a re-run of American Gladiators to take your mind off of things." Then, anarchy in the streets. What do you think would happen when a whole nation of people realizes they're all going to die and there's nothing that they can do about it? 'It's okay if I break into this house and rape this kid, I'm going to die anyway, I may as well get some enjoyment out of the process!' Society as we know it would crumble.

So why doesn't Bush try and use this $60 billion for a more practical purpose; one that excludes the senseless death of millions of people? Why not... Oh, I don't know... invest it in the financing and construction of community centers, a better health system or education or even strengthening foreign relations by donating a few billion to impoverished nations ruled by bloodthirsty dictators? Oh, wait... I forgot. He knows what's best for America, that's why he's the president. The country doesn't need a stable economy or a 100% literacy rate amongst adults. No, only evil communist countries like Cuba have those sorts of demographics. And the USA will never fall under such an oppressive, authoritarian Orwell-wet-dream government like Cuba.

Or will they?


Stay sane,

Jay