The week that we just got rid of

And oh what a week it was.  Turns out, the biggest thorn in our sides over there in the middle east has a super trooper group of soldiers that they train to be one of the baddest groups on the planet only when the chips are down and they make a play, they turn to a drunkard stoner in Texas to hire Mexican drug cartel hitmen to take out a Saudi diplomat hanging out in DC (Touch Me).  What the...?  No question stranger things have happened, certainly when it comes to family ties (not the Michel P Keaton kind), but man, if this is what we are up against in the rest of the world, hell, maybe it can be USA! USA! for a few more years.  Hitting the jackpot as being the arresting government agency on this grand caper, the ATF can breathe a sigh of relief for the moment while this overshadows their other, less successful, work under the Fast and Furious program (Touch Me) which is now coming to a courtroom near you.  This program put guns into the hands of the cartels, yes those shooting up the streets along the border, in an effort to try and track the guns and make arrests to those in possession.  Sounds like a great plan but some reason, didn't work out so well.  I guess we can't be perfectly competent all the time.  It would just be nice to be competent just once or at least not be so incompetent as to use pirated software to fly our killing machines around (Touch Me).