[Quality_Not_Quantity]

They will only get the message when we do something that sends an unmistakably clear message.

And nevertheless, people will complain that we pulled the trigger too hard on those poor people who were just doing what they were told - the 'they're not bad people, just trying to get along...'

I'd like to prescribe band-aids for their cardiac muscles - you know, the bleeding-heart crowd.

[Starboard]

There’s an old expression: Say what you mean and mean what you say.

Its all about credibility. We talk a lot, and our adversaries know that and they act accordingly. And many interpret our rhetoric as a weakness and lacking in resolve.

Pulling the trigger now may actually help to prevent a far worse “miscalculation” by our adversaries in the future.