Hat Tip to Drudge on what has to be the most senseless act of bureaucratic idiocy I have seen in my lifetime. You want to know why big, liberal government is a disaster? Read this:

The Ministry of Defence in London said last night that 400,000 operational ration packs had been shipped to the US.

But officials blamed the US Department of Agriculture, which impounded the shipment under regulations relating to the import and export of meat.

The aid worker, who would not be named, said: “This is the most appalling act of sickening senselessness while people starve.

“The FDA has recalled aid from Britain because it has been condemned as unfit for human consumption, despite the fact that these are Nato approved rations of exactly the same type fed to British soldiers in Iraq.

This is outrageous! And I do not blame the good citizens of the UK (you note I even did not use the term ‘Brits’) for feeling like fools.

One British aid worker last night called the move “sickening senselessness” and said furious colleagues were “spitting blood”.

The food, which cost British taxpayers millions, is sitting idle in a huge warehouse after the Food and Drug Agency recalled it when it had already left to be distributed.

Does anyone think we need this kind of regulatory nightmare?? I think we found one place for spending cuts to help pay for the rebuilding efforts.