“We want to be proportionate,” Trump told reporters Saturday.
I have never liked the idea of a military response being
“proportionate”. I think the President made the right call
in not responding militarily,but if a military response is warranted, it can’t be proportionate...it has to be prohibitive.
Marko
I think President Trump is using “proportionate” in the sense that if they kill no one, we don’t kill them...if they do kill, even a single American, the clearing smoke will be filled with keening and wailing....