Letting Stupid beget Stupid

Newt Gingrich — with all his Boss Hogg gravitas — prattled on FoxNews Sunday about the "recklessness" of Obama’s foreign policy, while proclaiming we should attack North Korea with ‘frickin’ lasers. Meanwhile, Obama was making a speech in front of an enthusiastic crowd in Prague about a goal of ridding the earth of nuclear weapons.

Nuclear disarmament is so boring compared to Newt’s fictional Blofeldian world of lasers.

As Newt was trying the beat the drums of non-existent war, North Korea was demonstrating the real danger of its missile program was that it would epically fail by plopping down on Japan. At present, Estes Rockets have a superior success rate to Asia’s worst Roy Orbison impersonator:

“It’s a setback,” Jonathan McDowell, a Harvard astronomer who tracks satellites and rocket launchings, said of the North Korean launching. He added that the North Koreans must now find and fix the problem. “The missile doesn’t represent any kind of near-term threat.”

North Korea as a high-tech threat barely exists in puppet movies, but then Newt Gingrich isn’t a viable presidential candidate even in puppet movies.

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