United States and Pakistan, sitting in a tree…
March 28, 2005 
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On Friday I briefly posted about the U.S. pissing off one of the two parties we were trying to help begin peace talks. Then the U.S. turned around and offered the party we pissed off MORE weapons than we offered their quasi-enemy. Makes perfect sense, right?
Well check this out:
On Satuday, on our way to Folsom to see my sister and her family, I was stunned to find three articles relating to the U.S. and Pakistan in the ‘A’ section of The Press Democrat. They are as follows:
The Los Angeles Times reported, on Saturday, that a U.S. ‘federal criminal investigation’ has found that Pakistan has been buying ‘U.S. high-technology components for use in its nuclear weapons program in defiance of American law’ since 2003.
Oh, it gets better!
Also on Saturday, the Associated Press reported a follow-up article that the Bush administration has ‘…rewarded Pakistan, an improbable ally in the war on terrorism, with a promise Friday that it could buy sophisticated U.S.-built F-16 warplanes.’ This sale of F-16s was originally planned to happen in the 80′s but ‘because of Pakistan’s increasingly obvious drive to build nuclear weapons’ they were instead given years of sanctions due to their determination to obtain nuclear weapons.
Both of these articles appeared on the same half-page of the newspaper. Four pages later, the New York Times told readers that Pakistan may aid in the Iran nuke investigation. How perfect is that?
President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan says he is considering turning over centrifuges to the International Atomic Energy Agency. These centrifuges will allegedly help the IAEA ‘…determine whether the traces of highly enriched, weapons-grade uranium found on nuclear equipment in Iran originated in Iran or, as Tehran maintains, arrived in a contaminated shipment of centrifuges from Pakistan.’
How’s that for your daily dose of irony? A country that the U.S. stopped doing business with due to ‘nuclear amitions’ will be receiving dozens of fighter jets from us, was found by the U.S. to have been buying nuclear weapons stuffs on the Black Market since 2003, and is most likely going to be helping the International community point the finger at Iran.
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