Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n
One of the early,\u00a0successful examples<\/a>, of drawing a line in the sand, from before President Obama got into the act.<\/p>\n
The Light Bringer can’t pull this off because his words carry no authority.\u00a0 When the Roman Consul threatened you, it wasn\u2019t with a strike \u201cjust muscular enough to not get mocked\u201d<\/a>\u00a0or one that would be \u201cunbelievably small<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0 When Barak Obama threatens you, it\u2019s an international joke.<\/p>\n
Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
You don’t risk American lives and spend American money to “send a message”.<\/p>\n
Say what you will about both of Dubya’s wars – Afghanistan went bad, and the unintended consequences in Iraq were worse than the war itself for all concerned, we get that – but when Dubya went to war, he didn’t “send a message” to the Taliban, or “punish” Hussein. He went to war to unconditionally defeat them.<\/p>\n
Not to send a message.<\/p>\n
“Messages” are why we have a State Department. \u00a0“Punishment” is why we have trade sanctions, Stuxnet and spooks .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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