Going Ballistic

My ears are ringin'
Ringin' like empty shells
--Call Letter Blues, Bob Dylan

Well, the minutes seemed like hours,
hours they seemed like days
It seemed like my good, old gal ought ta
done stopped her low-down ways
--Death Letter, Son House
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The U.S. government is concerned with the spread of nuclear weapons technology, but we're shipping nuclear triggers via UPS. But it is not the waylaid parts per se that caught our eye. instead, it was the below observation:

"Washington has hinted that it would go to war to protect Taiwan."

The U.S. is involved in the endless long war, with a military stretched to its breaking point tied in little knots in Baghdad allies. It has a chugging economy which cannot long sustain the effort without mortgaging our nation's future.

And we hint we would go to war to defend Taiwan. Paper tiger.