explains the reasoning<\/a>.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s a dumb idea.<\/p>\n
The trip-wire concept is simple: if the Russians attack and kill our 300 guys, the American public will be so outraged that Congress will Declare War as young people run to the recruiting offices and the sleeping American giant will roar to life to crush the Russians in a savage but fully justified act of revenge.<\/p>\n
Never happen. Not in modern America. Democrats won\u2019t declare war, Code Pinkers won\u2019t support war, Millennials won\u2019t go to war. Instead, the public consensus will be \u201cThose paratroopers volunteered to serve in the armed forces so they assumed the risk of being killed. We\u2019re not going to suffer for their bad career choice.\u201d<\/p>\n
Now, here\u2019s the scary part: are SITD readers the only people who understand this? Does the US military command know those troops are twisting in the wind but they\u2019re sending them anyway because the WaPo foreign policy wallahs want it? Seems like a major breach of faith to me.<\/p>\n
Worse, do the Russians know it\u2019s a bluff? Are they already planning how to invade around our people, knowing there only risk is a scolding from the Teleprompter in Chief or his lurching Secretary of State?<\/p>\n
It was bad enough when the President\u2019s idiotic foreign policy got our Ambassador killed. We don\u2019t need another 300 bodies to confirm his error.<\/p>\n
Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Reading history, it’s hard to avoid a key fact; most wars are backed into.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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