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Victor Davis Hanson: War By Affirmative Action?
American Greatness ^ | 22 Apr, 2024 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 04/22/2024 5:19:42 AM PDT by MtnClimber

In the American Left’s vision of contemporary war, the West brings too many advantages in science, technology, and wealth.

Why does Biden play Iranian poker with American and Israeli lives?

Answer? He envisions war sort of like affirmative action, in which the less accomplished belligerent is allowed all sorts of concessions for the sake of equity.

Israeli and American military capability, and particularly their missile defenses, are seen as unfair, almost like high achievers’ top SAT scores that are seen as unearned and used to privilege some over others and therefore must be countered or dropped.

Given Iran’s and its surrogates’ incompetence, the administration, then, must extend the theocracy some allowances “to level the playing field.” Biden believes in an equality of opportunity in war, when an aggressor does its best to attack or indeed destroy a defender, who in turn does its own best to retaliate and achieve victory.

These 2 Vegetables Kill Your Belly And Neck Fat Overnight! Eye Bags Are Not From Age! Meet The Main Enemy Of Under-Eye Bags! Instead, the Biden administration sees war leading to equality of result as something to be waged “proportionally,” especially when the power attacked is stronger and Western while the attacking aggressor is weaker and non-Western. The method, then, is to restrain the western power and give repeated chances for the non-western aggressors to catch up.

As a result, the Biden administration’s strategic attitude toward Iran ignores Iranian intent and agendas. So it does not respond fully to its acts of aggression and thereby almost rewards the incompetence of Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis without consideration of their murderous aims.

Americans are thus baffled that Biden has not responded to some 170 or more attacks on U.S. installations in the Middle East by Iranian-backed terrorists...

(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...


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To: Brian Griffin

SINCE WHEN IS WAR A GAME OF “CAPTAIN, MAY I?”


21 posted on 04/22/2024 8:21:40 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: MtnClimber

Victor Davis Hanson ‘gets it’....


22 posted on 04/22/2024 12:05:27 PM PDT by GOPJ (Two items Biden finds at 'Ice Cream Shoppes'? A: Ice cream cones and 7 year old girls to look at...)
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To: Taxman

ping


23 posted on 04/23/2024 9:10:11 PM PDT by Taxman ((SAVE AMERICA! VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2024! SAVE AMERICA!))
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