Amusing, in a depressing, disquieting sort of way, with Yemen in the news, the several anecdotes I've read about rampant qat use in the glorious kingdom - qat, the narcotic weed that one apparently endlessly chews on like a ruminant a cud in order to savour the full, tranquilizing effect - according to the stories there are few males in the country not addicted to the stuff, one recent visitor describing how after the noon hour cities slip into a slumbering stasis as males of all descriptions vanish into various recesses to chew their ways into an oblivion. Opiate of the masses, the gov't apparently supports the cultivation of the stuff [hardly surprising I guess given the nature of the place] and this has worsened the water crisis as water is diverted and usurped for that purpose.
Amusing - and I guess now, in order to suppress or extirpate another warren of Islamists, or prop up the hopelessly fucked country so it doesn't fold and destabilize Saudi Arabia, I guess now we're supposed to invade the bloody place or funnel millions of dollars of aid towards it or pump air into some clownish dictator so he can pretend at making sense of the mess or do all that and more so we won't have thousands of these qatted retards running around with explosives sewn into their underwear. Fucking amusing.
And we're going to do all this and bear the scorn and cost and calumny so access to the region's resources is preserved for China to quietly exploit so that they can fuck us over some 50 years down the road? Very amusing.
God's cruelest joke? A progressive West inexorably anchored to a regressive East? Quite poetic, I suppose. Well, shit, they in a sense created us so I guess implied is a right to destroy us.
