Chain of cruelty

John Batchelor continues to blog at Red State; his latest entry reminds me that he was an author before he was a radio show host. He writes beautifully, bitterly, of the hypocrisy that mourns the execution of Van Nguyen while ignoring the horrors unleashed by the heroin trade.

... Those heroin grams out of Cambodia are part of the chain of cruelty that reaches into the rogue state of Cambodia -- brutalized by the unrepentant, PRC linked Khmer Rouge lieutenants of Pol Pot's last years -- and then reaches across Asia to wreck neighborhoods and fund terror gangs ...

From Batchelor's December 1 entry Singapore Hang 'em High