Compassionate Conservatism.

There's a rising star in the conservative punditry named Kathleen Parker. She is a syndicated columnist, and a contributor to the right-wing Townhall.com site. This week, she revealed that the "unanimous" decision in her household was that the entire "Sunni Triangle" area of Iraq. (You know - that country Bush & co. lied about so he could fight a war). Remember Dick Cheney on Meet the Press, predicting how we'd be greeted as liberator. Some greeting. Anyway - completely ignoring the irony - this conservative commentator opines that we should just obliterate hundreds of thousands of innocent (and maybe a couple of guilty) Iraqis. Just kill them dead. Why? Because 4 American "private security contractors" (read: mercenaries) were killed, and their bodies desecrated. I seem to recall that, in their occupied territories, the Nazis would murder 10 local, innocent civilians for every 1 Nazi soldier killed in partisan ambushes. The new conservatives are merely chips off the old block. Here's Ms. Parker's wish that we use a final, nuclear solution on Fallujah. Here, Ms. Parker gets it completely wrong about gay marriage, and stereotypically lumps homosexual men and women with transvestites. She also approvingly quoted conservative "democrat" Zell Miller as advocating that the then-9 democratic presidential candidates be "lined up and slapped." Ha ha! Of course, the original column, and the actual quote, advocated that these 9 candidates be lined up and shot. Tee hee.