Saturday, November 01, 2003

Funding Taiwan's military

US officers are advising Taiwan’s military at all levels in what US and Taiwanese officials acknowledged is a major departure from long-standing US policy limiting military relations with Taiwan to avoid a confrontation with China... article

Alas, I suppose we are no longer interested in avoiding that confrontation. Bring 'em on.

...[T]he ambitious US plan [is] foundering because Taiwan’s leaders were reluctant to foot the enormous bill and force change on the island’s highly politicised and conservative military.

What the hey. Just tack the cost on to the war on terror budget. We apparently have a never-ending citizen-tax-based supply to fund it. Oh. Maybe it already got tacked on. We don't have a clue where our money goes. But I'm sure that it's going where it needs to go, and ought to go, because I trust Congress and I trust the White House and I trust the Pentagon and I trust the State Department and I trust the CIA and I trust...

....you do what you want....you will anyway.

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