Fife wrote:Honest question, Smits: Is our intelligence really this weak?
Side note: Do you think my fellow Tennessean Cormac had nuclear winter in mind regarding The Road? That's been worrying me for years.
It's not so much that your intelligence is weak, it's just that the Juche Doomsday Cult is the Ultimate Totalitarian Regime, that's what I'm trying to tell ya'll, this ain't the Soviets, you had the Soviets penetrated eight ways from Sunday, the fact that the NK's are so opaque, just tells you how good they are at what they do, and how this abomination as it has become, is like no animal you've ever faced before, certainly in the nuclear paradigm.
Are they more rational than ISIS? Depends how you look at it, because Juche's definition of rational is the rationallity of the Doomsday Cult Ultimate Totalitarian Regime, they make George Orwell's 1984, look like a libertarian's paradise, they make Josef Stalin, look like a humanitarian, and they make the East German Stasi, look like a buncha slackers.
As to Nuclear Winter, it's all relative, there's Nuclear Winter and then there's nuclear winter, but if Redwing Tewa ever pops off on Los Angeles County, it's gonna get pretty damn nuclear wintery enough downwind from that, even in Tennesee.