Musings

Musing #1: A parodist's job is to exaggerate reality. She starts with something realistic and pushes it to an extreme, such that it becomes a hilarious caricature of its inspiration. This is what makes parody funny. So, I have this to say regarding the "leadership" team of the program on which I work: either it is composed of clowns and comedians pulling off a grand prank, or it is merely trying to beat the comedians to the punch to take the wind out of their sails. Case in point: the 50-foot "buffer zone", a.k.a. "the human shield" in which a buffer zone of U.S. employees is required to occupy the desks between program management and nefarious, swarthy foreign nationals, a.k.a. the bulk of the on-site workforce on this program.

Musing #2: The stated goal of the U.S. with regard to countries like N. Korea, Iraq and Iran is to prevent them from acquiring nuclear weapons. Presumably, because those countries haven't the level of responsibility possessed by the U.S. which is required to have but not use said weapons. So…the U.S. will go to war to stop nuclear weapons from being acquired and/or used. And, as in the war of terror on Iraq, the U.S. stated that if Iraq threatened the use of WMDs, the U.S. would respond in kind. Further, the legality/morality of the use of "bunker busting mini nukes", even without provocation, was seriously considered. That is to say that the U.S. will use nuclear weapons in order to prevent the use of nuclear weapons.