[Zhang Fei]

[just remember what happened to bush jr.

What if the short-term response is not sufficient?]

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Bush invaded. Strike missions and invasions are different things. With strike missions, you break stuff and leave. How much damage the President wants to do is completely up to him. It’s completely arbitrary. Colin Powell came up with a really stupid formulation - you break it, you own it - that’s testament to his stupidity. The entire point of the military is to break things - you break it, they’re f***ed. That’s how countries have traditionally dealt with their enemies.

It worked with Iraq and it’s worked with Libya. Is either country sponsoring terrorists against us or building nukes? If not, mission accomplished. The idea that we’re responsible for building them into Germany or Japan, or we’re the biggest sinners on the planet, is woolly-headed nonsense.

[mrsmith]

I *so* agree with you. Achieving that against the efforts of
US media (and the DC establishment) is a problem though.

Now it’s a diplomatic problem, but it could become a military problem quickly.