Bizzaro World is the new reality

Back in the early days of Feckless Leader's reign, one of his acolytes informed us about the new state of affairs:

That's not the way the world really works anymore. We're an empire now, and when we act we create our own reality.

At the time, most of us thought that the statement was an example of hubris, and that reality would bounce back for a little ass-biting.

Looking back now I can see he had a point, it's just that the reality that was created is really, really strange. Lets look at some of the strangeness around the world:

• Pakistan - within a few days, the US states that Musharraf has the situation under control, then that he doesn't and we might just have to do some excellent bombing. We are also delivering 25 F-16s to Pakistan.
• Iraq - we are arming Sunnis to fight Shiites while the Shiite Maliki protests and wants the Greatest General EVAR Petraeus replaced. The US is pissed at Saudi Arabia for, that's right, arming Sunnis and not loving Maliki. Bush listens to Petraeus because he wrote the book on counter-insurgency, and he likes Maliki, too. Iran is arming the Shiites who are not fighting the US, usually, and Iran too like Maliki. Even though he is well liked, we just might have to replace Maliki since he's not on board with Petraeus, who is the Greatest General EVAR.
• Saudi Arabia - they are our friends, even if they arm the Iraqi Sunnis, we still sell them high tech weaponry. The Saudis have other faults, they tried to bring Hamas and Fatah together, undermining the US policy of supporting democracy except in Palestine. Prince Bandar got paid huge bribes to buy weapons from Great Britain, but it's OK because it's a national security issue and the money was put into bank accounts that were government accounts that Bandar just controlled. The Saudis have so much fucking money anyway that nobody cares.
  
• Israel/Palestine - Palestinians elected Hamas who then had a coup and replaced Fatah in Gaza. Fatah, who legitimately lost the election runs the West Bank and gets money to fight Hamas, but not too well in Gaza.
  

And that's just a small slice of our empire of strangeness. Here on the home front thing are, if anything, even stranger, but that shall, perhaps, be the subject of another post.