A Small, Noisy Evil.

The other day, the fantastically tiny-minded, Conservative chest-thumper, Glenn Reynolds rattled what remains of his tortured brain and composed the following example of compassionate conservatism:

JUST WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW: North Korea fires artillery barrage on South. If they start anything, I say nuke ‘em. And not with just a few bombs. They’ve caused enough trouble — and it would be a useful lesson for Iran, too. 

Really, Glenn?  You've become so unhinged that you would attack and kill tremendous numbers of an oppressed and impoverished people solely to send a message designed to terrify another, entirely different nation.

There's a word for that tactic, asshole.  It's called terrorism (look it up, Gomer), and it shows just how dangerous the Republicans' slavering horde of small-minded, finite-thinkers genuinely are.  But, you know, for kicks, let's take a look at the target of this drama queen's emotionally-vacant, big-American-dick-waving, genocidal rage:

From the Wiki:

In 1992, the North Korean government launched the "Let's Eat Two Meals Per Day Campaign" in an attempt to cut down food consumption.[7] By 1994, people in some remote areas could not get food for days at a time, despite being issued the usual rationing coupons. As infrastructure throughout the country was collapsing, the distribution of food was breaking down and, as a result, shops were empty.[8] The vulnerable agricultural sector experienced a massive failure in 1995-96. In 1995, a series of floods devastated about 40% of North Korea's arable land.[9] As a result, grain production was reduced by 1.9 million tons, or about 30% of the total amount of grain necessary to feed the people. This trend continued in 1996. In 1997, North Korea was the victim of drought.

Wow. These sound like some genuinely dangerous people hell-bent on killing us all with their Super North Korean Army.  And, you bloated fuck, there's more:

Although sometimes the figure is said to be as high as more than 3 million, or 12% of North Korea's population, this figure is considered problematic because it is based on the experience of North Koreans in the province of North Hamgyŏng. The province was one of the most devastated due to its urban environment and lack of agricultural production. Additionally, the original study warned not to extrapolate the death toll of the famine to the whole of North Korea.[12]

By late 1995, the North Korean famine was becoming public knowledge all over the world, and by early 1999 it was being estimated that two to three million people had died prematurely because of the food crisis[13]. Scholars estimate 600,000 died of starvation (other estimates range from 200,000 to 3.5 million).[14] The famine was at its peak in mid 1996 to late 1997, much of the destruction occurred in this year.

Feel good about nuking these people yet, Glenn? 

North Korea has not yet resumed its food self-sufficiency and relies on external food aid from China, Japan, South Korea and the United States. In 2002, North Korea requested that food supplies no longer be delivered. (Woo-Cummings, 2002)

In the mid-2000s, the World Food Programme reported that famine conditions were in imminent danger of returning to North Korea, and the government was reported to have mobilized millions of city-dwellers to help rice farmers.[16][17]

As of 2009, famine continues to be a problem for North Korea, although less so than in the mid to late '90s. Flooding in 2007 and reductions in food aid exacerbate the problem, however[18].

And that's just a little history on the devastating famine.  I don't think I need to go into the reality that much of the North Korean population are little more than political prisoners being fed a daily diet of propaganda by an ego-maniacal dictator.  In other words, they are the very definition of innocent victims, and Glenn Reynolds wants to nuke them out of existence.

Really, Reynolds?  You want to nuke a starving and fettered and innocent people for no other reason than the simple fact that you're a terrified, bedwetting infant with a deviant's fetish for terrorism and big explosions?

Wow.  I think Conservatives should be overjoyed to have such a sick, twisted, ego-maniac like Glenn Reynolds belching this fevered and emotionally dead propaganda to satisfy they near-sexual obsession with setting innocent people on fire.

Seriously, Glenn?  I'll give you the explosives.  Just, you know, blow yourself up first.  Humanity won't really miss you.  Conservatives have a stable full of frothy-mouthed toadies desperate to replace you.  And, America would only lose a clownish, terrified imbecile with no concept of reality or rational thought.

Happy Thanksgiving, Reynolds.  Did you get enough to eat?

-DP
    

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