I just watched a program on C-SPAN, and it was beyond hilarious. A foreign relations specialist was talking about 15 million dollars that the US has given Mexico to train Mexican military.
People with whiny voices kept calling to ask, “But why can’t Mexico invest its own $15,000,000 to train its own military?”
The specialist kept explaining, with the patience of an early Christian saint, that of course Mexico was spending hundreds of millions on training its military, and of course, in foreign relations, $15 million only matters as a symbolic gesture with zero practical consequences, and of course the return that the US was getting on this puny little investment was in the billions. Yet the Whiny Voices persisted.
Then an even bigger genius called to propose, in a happy voice of somebody convinced he has solutions to every problem on the planet, that if the US legalizes drugs this would eliminate Mexico’s gangs. The poor foreign relations specialist tried explaining that a scenario where a gangster says, “Hmm, nobody needs my drugs anymore, let me go get a minimum-wage job at McDonald’s” is not realistic, but that wasn’t making much of an impression.
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