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GWOK

Funny, but I have not been able to find any references to or update on the USA administration's highly touted (for a day) pre-election intention to undertake a glorious Global War on Kleptocracy, since around the week when it was announced in August.

Uh, how's that working out for you, guys?

I'm disappointed to see, in the case of a campaign at which it would be almost all too easy to take      potshots, that the admin is not doing more to get the publicity ball rolling or the propaganda catapulted.

What, not even a deck of Most Wanted Kleptocrats playing cards? At least the State Department's website lists a few of the Mostest. Number One on the list? Who could have guessed it? Saddam Obama (oopsy!) Hussein himself!

Ah, for an alternate universe where the GWOK could have been given primacy over the GWOT. This American government, or any government, truly could have perpetuated it forever, like Penelope, weaving by day and unravelling by night, until every crony in the Money Go Round got their cut, both "because" of the War and "despite" it. The GWOT, by contrast, sadly promises to end with a bang (a blinding one) all too soon.

posted by TiR at 7:01 AM