{"id":87518,"date":"2024-05-10T11:25:11","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T16:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87518"},"modified":"2024-05-10T11:25:11","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T16:25:11","slug":"ive-never-been-less-proud-to-be-an-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87518","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve Never Been Less Proud To Be An American"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Believe me &#8211; the Biden Administration has kept on giving me moments; the Afghan debacle,, the Nurembadelphia speech; yapping about &#8220;shinkflation&#8221; of potato chips.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But this may be the big daddy of them all.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So far. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Biden, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87509\">as we noted yesterday<\/a>, is playing pattycake with military supplies to Israel as it fights an existential war against Iranian proxies in Gaza:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Here&#39;s the full video for those who haven&#39;t seen it yet \ud83d\udc47 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vqxewKM7CU\">pic.twitter.com\/vqxewKM7CU<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CurtisHouck\/status\/1788334003780473112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 8, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>They are most particularly threatening to cut off supplies of the precision-guided weapons that make it feasible to fight an urban war without indiscriminately slaughtering the civilians that Hamas are using for human shields.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Biden defends his action by saying he wants to emphasize &#8220;Defensive&#8217; weapons, like &#8220;Iron Dome&#8221;.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The problem with seeing defense as being entirely about defending is that it gives the initiative to the attacker.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s say you are worried about a gang of 2-3 people who&#8217;ve been doing home invasions.  You have two doors (and no windows large enough to let someone larger than Nicole Mitchell) into your house.  You have your significant other.  All covered, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, sort of.  The home invaders control who comes, and when, and through which door or doors.   You have to defend just as actively against them at noon on Wednesday at at 4AM on Sunday morning.  And when they come, it&#8217;ll be at a time of their choosing, through the door (or, having read about Nicole Mitchell) window of their choosing.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So much better to hit the home invaders first &#8211; to choose the time and place of your showdown, and not have to worry nearly as much about your windows and doors, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, if it was you and your significant other, literally, you&#8217;d be breaking the law &#8211; but the metaphor holds for nations.  Saying a nation can &#8220;just defend their borders, using only defensive, not offensive, weapons&#8221;, is simplistic, even childishly naive.  It presumes that attackers are stupid, and will attack you exactly when and how you predicted.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately, attackers are creative; they&#8217;ll <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;rct=j&amp;opi=89978449&amp;url=https:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/21st-century\/9-11-attacks&amp;ved=2ahUKEwiD2ZLdvoOGAxUE5MkDHczEDHwQFnoECCMQAQ&amp;usg=AOvVaw238UZvB_fnnhB6xbM7zKzz\">attack you in ways you never expect as you stand ready to defend against an attack they never intended to make<\/a>, or never expected to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11176\">see again<\/a>, or by finding <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72851\">weaknesses in your defenses<\/a> they can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86172\">exploit at a time and place of their choosing<\/a>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll just <em>defend <\/em>&#8221; is the fallback position of the illiterate at best, the deluded and bufuddled at worst.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or, in the case of our current, vile administration, both.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Believe me &#8211; the Biden Administration has kept on giving me moments; the Afghan debacle,, the Nurembadelphia speech; yapping about &#8220;shinkflation&#8221; of potato chips. But this may be the big daddy of them all. So far. 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