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Sowell: 'Proportional' Response
Creators Syndicate ^ | April 9, 2013 | Thomas Sowell

Posted on 04/08/2013 2:56:26 PM PDT by jazusamo

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To: stormhill
"And the weird part is that this is coming from an inveterate practitioner of the Chicago Way. You know: "Send one of ours to the hospital, we'll send one of yours to the morgue!"

Excellent point! But perhaps there's a misunderstanding about the meaning of "yours" and "ours?"

21 posted on 04/08/2013 4:43:19 PM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it)
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To: jazusamo

Yes.

And the “glass parking lot” approach should have been applied to a certain pair of “holy cities” on 9/12/01.

I know...it sounds awful but look what it would have prevented!


22 posted on 04/08/2013 5:15:56 PM PDT by left that other site (Worry is the darkroom that developes negatives.)
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Well, let me put it this way though it may seem indelicate.

Obama doesn't have this Country's best interest at heart; he's quite content to work against our welfare, to undermine our prestige and safety and that of our allies.

He'll behave one way to protect his own power and control and in the diametric opposite way to look after the well-being of America since he doesn't identify with her.

It means nothing to him and his crowd to give away the store to our enemies. Let the left's own concerns be on the line and, yes, they fight like tigers.

Hope this clarifies my position.

23 posted on 04/08/2013 6:05:46 PM PDT by stormhill
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Not indelicate at all, FRiend!

Point being that he WILL play Chicago tactics with his enemies.

But who are his enemies? The majority of the voting population doesn’t seem to understand their relationship with “the won.”

It’s hard to accept that there are so many “naïve” citizens.


24 posted on 04/08/2013 6:16:45 PM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it)
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For more than a century since the British settled in the Falkland Islands, Argentina had not dared to invade them. Why?

Because, until recent times, an Argentine attack on a British settlement would be risking not only a British counterattack there, but the danger of a major British attack on Argentina itself. That could mean leaving Buenos Aires in ruins.

Ancient Romans, the Khan family ... too.


25 posted on 04/08/2013 6:24:52 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: jazusamo

50 to 1 is a proportion...


26 posted on 04/08/2013 7:55:56 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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The left’s major concern is demonstrating their superior righteousness, not solving problems. We spent ten years in Afghanistan and the place is no different that before we got there. That is evil because we sacrificed young men’s lives for nothing.


27 posted on 04/08/2013 8:08:52 PM PDT by hopespringseternal
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To: jazusamo

Politicians have snatched defeat FRom the jaws of victory in every conflict (with a few VERY minor exceptions) the US has been involved in since WW II.

Say what you will about General MacArthur, he got it right: “In war, there is no substitute for victory!”

Bottom line, kicking ass, breaking things and taking names works to keep bullies in place, be they people or countries.

Dr. Sowell, of course, has a firm grasp of the obvious. Too bad our government does not!


28 posted on 04/09/2013 7:42:38 AM PDT by Taxman (So that the beautiful pressure does not diminish!)
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Well said, Sir.


29 posted on 04/09/2013 8:08:31 AM PDT by jazusamo ("Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent." -- Adam Smith)
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To: jazusamo

Expect the 479 S Korean managers to be “expelled” tomorrow. The 4 Chinese managers will stay on with maintenance crews for the annual spring cleanup.

The 53,000 NK workers and their 100,000 family members will be quite busy doing spring planting.

The SK workers posed a major security risk for the NK Second Army Corps.

Sat photos show that all four army corps reserves mobilized for combat exercises over the past few months have turned in their weapons to their local Ministry of People’s Safety on 1, April and went back to work gathering fertilizer for spring planting.

Worker and Peasant Red Guards have to grow their own food. Sat photos show they did not carry weapons and backpacks in the fields or in the streets after 1, April as they are required when mobilized about 1, February. Now they are all carrying shovels and hoes.

When mobilized, the Guards relocate to caves and tunnels in the mountains, and now they have gone back to garrison.

Remember, the DPRK are absolute experts at incitement and propaganda. The S Koreans often deliver translations of NK statements that are not accurate.

NK statements always have a backdoor way out that lets them walk backward from hardline statements. That rarely comes through the SK translations.

Posters about self defense have been replaced with posters about the economy.


30 posted on 04/09/2013 9:29:47 AM PDT by gandalftb
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” What about other countries around the world who are watching what the American government is doing? Many have to decide whether they want to cooperate with the United States, and risk the wrath of our enemies, or cooperate with our enemies and risk nothing.”

There you are.


31 posted on 04/09/2013 11:08:02 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker
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