h/t Instapundit
...The "horror" would set in as thousands were killed or wounded. In some estimates, North Korea would inflict 20,000 casualties a day just in Seoul during for the first few days. The herculean effort to limit collateral damage witnessed in our Middle Eastern wars will be impossible to repeat. We will operate within the laws of armed conflict, but significant loss of innocent life would be unavoidable due to the locations North Korea chooses to base or hide its weapons.
We will use cluster weapons that spread bomblets over areas the size of football fields. We will return artillery fire wherever enemy batteries are firing. When optimum for military conditions, we will hit targets in the middle of urban areas; it would be impossible to prevent civilian casualties. To fight effectively, we will have to bomb command facilities in the heart of neighborhoods. We will destroy missiles on mobile launchers even if they are placed in sensitive areas. Our ground forces will pour fire into the enemy without an excessive regard for damage. And, yes, we will bomb targets more widely than in recent decades. In short, a real war - not a f*cking PC exercise. However, far as I'm concerned,
UN observers are welcome to stay in Seoul's best hotels.
[Townhall] Dennis Rodman offered to "straighten things out" between North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un and the United States as tensions mount over the rogue regime’s nuclear tests.
Rodman, who has gone to North Korea several times as a sports ambassador and spent a lot of time with Kim Jong Un, told a British television show he might be able to help.
"For me to go over there and see (Kim) as much as I have, I basically hang out with him all the time. We laugh, we sing karaoke, we do a lot of cool things together. We ride horses, we hang out, we go skiing, we hardly ever talk politics and that’s the good thing," Rodman said, Reuters reports.
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It's the least he can do since Pudgy's been providing North Korean girls to work out Rodman's kinks for years.
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Maybe Rodman ought to go back in the archives of the Telegraph and see what Kim Jong Un thought of Obama back in December, 2014. Kim appears to be a racist. Telegraph.
[Townhall] Dr. Sue Mi Terry, a Columbia Univeristy professor and former senior CIA analyst on North Korea, said that Pyongyang will never give up its nuclear weapons. Their aim, she said, is to be able to strike anywhere in the United States with a nuclear weapon.
"What they said is they are going to complete their nuclear program. Perfect their nuclear arsenal," she said Sunday on Fox News. "They are not going to stop until they get there, get to the point where they can attack anywhere in the United States with a nuclear test. They are not going to give up nuclear weapons. Talking is fine but we have to be realistic. They are not going to give up nuclear weapons ever."
Terry’s assessment comes after the rogue regime claims to have successfully tested a hydrogen bomb Sunday that could be mounted to an intercontinental ballistic missile. The test triggered an initial magnitude 6.3 earthquake, and nuclear weapons experts estimated the weapon was up to seven times more powerful than the bomb the United States dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945.
[DAWN] The message is uniform from friend and foe alike: Pakistain’s tolerance for externally oriented krazed killer groups is no longer acceptable and a serious national effort needs to be made if the country is to remain on the right side of international opinion.
The significance of the BRICS declaration that included a condemnation of violence in Afghanistan and a specific mention of the Afghan Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... , the Haqqani network, Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... and Jaish-e-Mohammad ...literally Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf banned the group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat... should not be underestimated.
The presence of India in the five-nation bloc clearly influenced the language of the declaration in implicitly pointing towards Pakistain, but China, Russia, Brazil and South Africa will only have added their voices to the growing chorus of concern because of genuine considerations of their own.
Pakistain must not make the mistake of dismissing the signal from the world’s leading emerging economies. It does not appear to be an aberration and cannot simply be ascribed to overwrought allegations and concerns of India, Afghanistan and the US.
In truth, while Pakistain has made significant strides in the domestic fight against militancy, there is a contradiction at the heart of the country’s efforts to fight militancy, terrorism and extremism: an unwillingness to acknowledge that past policies, and an ongoing selective approach to fighting militancy, have contributed to the problem.
Without an honest reckoning with the past, the reorientation of the state from one that supported jihad under the umbrella of the Cold War to one that recognises the great cost that it inflicted on Pakistain’s economy, society and standing in the global community cannot be complete. And without recognising that Pakistain’s record in fighting militancy, terrorism and extremism at home has been patchy and inadequate, greater success is likely to prove elusive.
The bewildering aspect of the state’s anti-militancy strategy is that it continues to pursue perfunctory measures such as banning krazed killer groups without any real determination to shut down the operations of those groups in various guises. The only real attempt at drawing up a comprehensive anti-militancy strategy is the flawed National Action Plan, which has been implemented poorly and without uniformity.
Certainly, some outside allegations by India, Afghanistan and the US either seek to place excessive blame on Pakistain or are meant to try and dissuade the latter from pursuing its legitimate security interests. It is also the case that the important gains Pakistain has made in its fight against militancy often go unacknowledged and unappreciated.
But on this there must be clarity: Pakistain’s fight against militancy is its own fight for its own long-term peace and prosperity. Too often external criticism has been used by the state to deflect and deny legitimate critiques of its anti-militancy policy.
The BRICS declaration suggests an international trend that Pakistain cannot afford to ignore. The domestic fight against militancy must be made smarter, harder and more purposeful.
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So what does the GOP establishment do in 2018 when it comes before us dirty, nasty normals and tries to make the case that its members deserve being reelected to Congress instead of being tarred and feathered? After seven years of solemn assurances, it couldn’t even get its act together and keep its promise to put a stake through the heart of the abomination that is Obamacare. But hey ‐ when Donald Trump kept his promise to undo DACA, that sure spurred the True Conservatives to action. The deductibles my employees pay just went up two grand a year because if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor or something, yet that sort of real world pain for real world people doesn’t spur our righteous Conservative, Inc., stalwarts to action. But threaten to actually enforce a law Congress passed and cut the monocle-and-top-hat set off from cheap foreign serfs who will vote hard left if given the chance? Now that’s an emergency. All hands on deck!
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I think the word "cuckservative" is more appropriate here.
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Not truly conservative by any srtetch of the imagination - McConnell and his beltway cronies have trashed every conservative effort to replace those squishes, starting back with Thad Cochran, and continuing thru today with the jackass crony Strange getting all the wieght those fakers can throw against first Mo Brooks, and now Judge Moore. Same thing going on in Arizona for Flake.
As long as people like McConnel, Cronyn, Ryan, etc are "leadership", the GOP will not act at all, because they want a big government that they control, not one thats smaller and answerable to anyone other than them and their cronies (Including Schumer and pelosi in the cronies)
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grom, we have third parties. They don't stand a snowball's chance in hell of ever getting anybody elected but they serve one purpose. You can cast your vote for them as a protest against the two main parties. Mostly it's a symbolic gesture but if you have a Dem against a RINO in a really tight race in a conservative district the RINO might be able to see where he went wrong if there are enough votes cast for third parties. Might even smarten him up a bit. Like when Carly Fiorina ran against Barbara Boxer. No way in hell was I gonna vote for Fiorina but Boxer was obviously out of the question too. So I voted third party. Don't think Fiorina got the message though because two years later she was running for president. She might have been CEO of Hewlett-Packard but I never accused her of being smart.
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Vote the Third Party, unless this would give the seat to the "wrong" party (contested district).
C-SPAN program pollster/operatives seminar: 25% will always vote for Party A and 25% will always vote for Party B. The battleground is getting 51%+ of the Undecided and if you stay at home and never vote Nobody Cares What You Think! So a Third Party Vote is important because it adds another person to the target group that they have to win over.
[Breitbart] Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), one of the most vocal pro-amnesty voices in Congress, claimed on Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s administration is essentially endorsing "white supremacy" by winding down former President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) executive amnesty.
He also blasted White House Chief of Staff John Kelly as a "hypocrite who is a disgrace to the uniform he used to wear" who "should be drummed out of the White House along with the white supremacists."
"This Administration is on a very dangerous trajectory towards the full-throated endorsement of white supremacy‐the likes of which we haven’t seen in the open from a sitting President for a century," Gutierrez said in his typically understated manner.
Gutierrez blasted Trump for pardoning former Maricopa Sheriff Joe Arpaio, praising "those who marched at the University of Virginia with torches shouting ’Jews will not replace us,’" and launching his campaign for the White House by taking a strong stance against illegal immigrant criminals from Mexico.
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I don't see where Luis ever served in the military. Luis Gutierrez was a taxi cab driver in Puerto Rico. Do cab drivers wear uniforms down there? I don't ever recall seeing them wearing uniforms. Maybe Luis should shut his pie hole. Another community organizer activist.
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When they don't have anything else they play the race card.
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Hmmmm...any you're not a disgrace to someone who took an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States? You, know the piece of paper that says "We the People of the United States" not the world.
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Luis Gutierrez is a representative in a very gerrymandered district. He stated off as a campus radical and went straight to being a "community organizer" (like somebody else we know).
His knowledge of the military comes from Hollywood movies. His entire performance in congress comes straight from professional wrestling.
i.e. He is nothing but a clown.
Al
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[Townhall] Dennis Rodman offered to "straighten things out" between North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un and the United States as tensions mount over the rogue regime’s nuclear tests. 
[Breitbart] Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), one of the most vocal pro-amnesty voices in Congress, claimed on Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s administration is essentially endorsing "white supremacy" by winding down former President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) executive amnesty.
