We pour a lot of money into Middle Eastern countries on a yearly basis that you never even hear about. We have given Pakistan over $10 billion in the past few years as "reimbursements" for helping us fight terrorism. And this is incredibly common. You'd be shocked if you saw how much money (or weapons that cost a lot of money) we have given to Israel.
You don't hear people who complain about the government bailing out the Big Three complaining about this kind of activity.
I'm not saying that we should just completely isolate ourselves from the Middle East, but that we need to be way more careful than we have been. And this isn't the kind of activity we should be doing when we are dead broke as a country.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
