Left Out

The Mother of All Conspiracies

I said to a friend this morning that I was rather sick of the way terrorism has taken over my mental faculties. Instead of decrying the present Pakistani government’s inability to do something about unemployment and food insecurity, I’m cheering on a multi billion-dollar Army-driven operation. Instead of offering criticism on it’s lack of commitment to voters I’m grateful to it for not committing to deals with militants. And instead of rallying against America’s half-century-old war against Communism that led to this bloody mess, the invasion of a democratic country and drove my own government to start “disappearing” its own people, I’m hoping that the US doesn’t suddenly decide to renege on its promise of 1.7m a year.

They’ve made me into a liberal.

I mean, what else am I going to be – a jihadi?

5 thoughts on “Left Out

  1. Philistine says:

    No action at all man. Total cock block.

  2. Tazeen says:

    Well, being a jihadi is a viable option these days. Being a liberal, you are not assured of a job even after sixteen years of education but if you want to be a jihadi, all you need is a rudimentary training in all jihadi related stuff and viola, you are in business …

  3. julene says:

    hey! is it the terrorism or UofC that turned you into a liberal?

  4. Sohaib says:

    There is a third option – you could become a government servant. :D

    Didn’t know you had a blog. Yay.

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