Couldn't the rag heads just sell off some of the billions of dollars worth of weapons we've just given them?
/“They need to eat”
“You’re not sophisticated enough to understand,” Tough Tony Blinken told FWIW when questioned about this latest raid on the treasury, “and frankly, that’s why people like you should leave the running of the country’s affairs to us experts. We gave those weapons to our new brothers: the helicopters, the missiles, the hundreds of thousands of automatic rifles, even the night vision goggles: 16,000 of those, $80 million bucks. I mean, that’s nothing to the Blackhawks at $21 mil a pop, but you get the idea.
“So — we gave ‘em all this shit and now you want us to take it back, like some goddamned redskin Indian givers? Can you imagine the hurt they’d feel, the distrust we’d cause, if we told them they had to sell some of it to buy rice and beans? C’mon, man! The taxpayers are good for this — trust me.”
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