A NATO smart bomb took out a few dozen of our Pakistani allies today. That's what's known in military jargon as an "oopsie".
We weren't aiming for the Pakistani army of course. We were hard on the trail of the bad guys. You know, the Taliban. Or Al Qaeda. Or the Taliban Al Qaeda. Ya, that's it, the Taliban Al Qaeda, the ones who want to do us harm.
Obviously a not-so-smart bomb got in the mix with the other ones. That will happen in a democracy.
All for the greater good of course. I'm sure that if the Mexicans took out a few dozen GIs in Brownsville in their fight against the narco-terrorists we'd be understanding too. We'd make allowances. Mexican smart bombs can't be anywhere near as smart as ours, for starters.
So the Pakistanis are just going to have to suck it up. As somebody once said, when you cut down a forest there's going to be a bit of sawdust. I think it was Joseph Stalin said that.
Stalin also said "power is exercised by those who govern, not by those who elect." Bit ahead of his time, that Stalin fellow. Those are apt words when we think of the so-called western democracies today. Who in these "democracies" ever voted for Iraq or Afghanistan or Libya?
Nobody.
Nobody asked us.
Power is exercised by those who govern.
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