Butt Puffery and Profit

Better known as blowing smoke up your ass while charging you for it.

This mornings butt puffery, has us arming up Saudi Arabia and a few other Persian Gulf allies, with jets, missiles and other goodies…to the tune of 25 billion dollars in sales over the last two years.

That’s just good business sense and knowing your market.   Because what’s good for Boeing, GE, Raytheon and the CIA, is always good for the rest of the world as well.

In fact it’s worked wonders in the past with Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, Korea, Vietnam and Oklahoma.

Why change now?

Saudi Arabia!  Today…allies and customers.  Tomorrow…the new Taliban, armed with our weapons.

Funny how that keeps happening, no?

In related cash infusions for earth ending weapons news…President Obama is spending $5 billion to spruce up our nuclear arsenal.  Sure the arsenal needs a Brazilian wax and a pedicure, but should we not spend a few bucks on re-training those who guard the earth ending WMD’s?

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Call me old-fashioned, but if common sense were a hand grenade, I think we’d choose the most difficult way to pull the pin with our teeth,  make a huge profit, and still manage to watch in dazed amazement as our intestines land 20 yards away in a patriotic heap of red, white
and blue.

Happy Sunday!