SecDef Mattis refers to the "first Korea War" ...because expectations may envy the dead…
Because World War One was The Great War until there was a Second World War… and the second Korean War might get called World War Three anyway…
In that fatalistic spirit of realism, David A. French at the National Review believes suburbanites could survive a nuclear war, so start prepping.
Because as if one needed any better example of the existential failure underscoring the privileging logic of conservativism, it might claim that demographics after the nuclear attack, has nothing to do with race/class/gender, or politics (sic), much like Ayn Rand’s social security card.
Someone needs to remain alive to get the numerology correct for all that ‘splaining during David French’s Nuclear Spring, because all those irradiated RWNJ snowflakes will melt, regardless. The added benefit is that they’ll be politically correct and perhaps envying the dead, clutching their rhetorical slights.
The piece went on to note that Trump voters tend to live outside cities. No person could read my post in good faith and conclude that I believed that nuclear war shouldn’t cause concern. No person could read my post in good faith and think that I was making a political point. Republicans and Democrats alike should have survival plans for emergencies. They should maintain basic stocks of supplies. They should understand the simple things that make it more likely they’ll survive the worst.
But whatever. There’s clickbait to write, and when there’s clickbait, then partisan smears aren’t far behind.
The strange part of this is I actually know Joy. We’ve talked, I’ve been on her show, and while I disagree with her politics, I’ve found her to be perfectly pleasant and civil. Others have had different experiences, unfortunately. But I’ll hold out a shred of hope. Perhaps she’ll actually read my post, realize her mistake, and apologize. If she does, I’m happy to forgive her and move on. Until then, MSNBC should know that one of its hosts is making things up. It’s a smear, pure and simple. There is no excuse.
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Oh so many fallacies…. as if ducking and covering with hazmat suits makes it better.
MATTIS: Our first stop today, is we're heading out Vancouver for -- British Columbia for the sending states conference. And this is co-hosted by Secretary of State Tillerson and the minister of foreign affairs in Korea -- in Canada. And the subject, of course, is Korea.
The sending states is the name given to the -- to the nations that responded to the U.N. call of 1950, by sending forces to what would be called the first Korean War.
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Q: Do you feel like Kim is sincere about this or is this ...
SEC. MATTIS: I don't know, JJ. I can't—we don't have enough data yet to know what's in his mind. Our problem is not with the N. Korean people. Our problem is with Kim and his regime.
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA – U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told participants in a 20-nation ministerial meeting on North Korea that the United States has already prepared a war plan for the North in case diplomatic efforts fail, a source from one of the countries said Wednesday.
The source said Mattis made the remark at a welcome dinner in Vancouver on Monday for the foreign ministers and other officials from the countries including Japan, South Korea and nations that backed the South in the 1950-1953 Korean War.
To many, this question might trigger a severe case of apocalyptic anxiety, where, on the one hand, we assume that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) is willing to embrace Götterdämmerung-like catastrophic violence to defend its Stalinist regime, whereas, on the other hand, we seem to be incapable of genuinely fathoming the carnage any military conflict between Seoul and Pyongyang would cause.
One explanation for this may be that estimates of casualties and physical destruction on the Korean Peninsula (and possibly Japan) under any war scenario are so exceedingly high. Should Pyongyang live up to its threat of turning Seoul into a “sea of fire,” casualties in the larger Seoul metropolitan area alone may surpass 100,000 within 48 hours, according to some estimates, even without the use of North Korean weapons of mass destruction. The U.S. Department of Defense assessed that a Second Korean War could produce 200,000-300,000 South Korean and U.S. military casualties within the first 90 days, in addition to hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths.