LUDIC LOG

Have you ever considered that the reason the American government is so bent out of shape about the military stand-off between Pakistan and India is because it makes them feel like they've made the rest of the world feel for 50 years?

Has it ever occurred to you that there's a certain poetic, if depressing, justice in Americans going through each day worried that a pair of leaders they didn't elect, can't control, don't have anything to do with, and may not even know the names of are threatening to set off a nuclear holocaust?

Do you find anything even remotely funny about the fact that the real reason we keep running our mouths about preventing other countries from developing "weapons of mass destruction" is because we want to be the only people who have them, as if America, despite decades of evidence to the contrary, holds the global monopoly on responsible behavior?

Is it grimly amusing to you that we only started talking seriously about disarmament and the need to scale back the production of nuclear arms when it was a couple of booga-boo brown people who started waving their dicks at each other, not when when it was we good white people terrifying the whole planet by going to the edge of annihilation over something as completely meaningless as Cuba?

When you think about the fact that we are forever trotting out "experts" and editorialists to lament the inevitability of nuclear destruction at the hands of irresponsible minor powers and rabid Islamist terrorists, endlessly spouting the cliche that "as soon as they have them, they'll use them", when in fact there are at least eight other countries besides us (half of them non-Western) who have had the bomb for years and have never used them despite any number of wars and conflicts, and in fact the only country in the history of the world who used the atomic bomb as soon as they got it was the United States, do you find this ironic?

No?

Me neither.