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"Disproportionate Retaliation" is a Great Trump Doctrine
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| Daniel Greenfield
| Jan 6, 2020
Posted on 01/06/2020 3:52:27 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
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posted on
01/06/2020 3:52:27 PM PST
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Mr. Mojo
To: Mr. Mojo
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posted on
01/06/2020 3:54:38 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
To: Mr. Mojo
Trump _hitting back_ always strikes his enemies as “disproportionate.”
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posted on
01/06/2020 3:54:46 PM PST
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: Mr. Mojo
In WAR there is no substitute for VICTORY! Douglas MacA!
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posted on
01/06/2020 3:57:54 PM PST
by
Don Corleone
(The truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth)
To: Mr. Mojo
The United States Marine Corps follows this doctrine implicitly. Shoot at Marines with an AK 47 and you’ll get anything form an M1 tank round, an 81mm mortar round, a 155mm howitzer round or a JDAM from a Marine Air F-18 down on you.
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posted on
01/06/2020 3:59:25 PM PST
by
jmacusa
("If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom?)
To: Mr. Mojo
The premise of this article is dead on. "Proportionate retaliation" encourages a cycle of violence by letting the enemy calculate exactly how much they're willing to endure, and attacking you accordingly.
By definition, disproportionate retaliation isn't cyclical.
To: Mr. Mojo
President Trump was interviewed by Rush Limbaugh today. In reference to Iran, Rush told him, quote,
"I dont think that they are accustomed to a president like you, sir." Limbaugh wins understatement of the year!
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posted on
01/06/2020 4:03:24 PM PST
by
workerbee
(America finally has an American president again.)
To: Mr. Mojo
Disproportionate retaliation is a logical response to asymmetric attacks.
It’s the only thing they understand.
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posted on
01/06/2020 4:07:19 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Democrats only believe in democracy when they win the election.)
To: Mr. Mojo
What's disproportionate? They killed one American, we killed two Iranians.
posted this last week:
I just realized the true callousness of Pelosi's "proportionate" remark. In her mind, Iran killed a contractor, an "ordinary" person.
President Trump killed a "revered" general, an elite like Pelosi.
To Pelosi, it was disproportionate for Trump to trade a contractor for a general, or an ordinary for an elite.
Pelosi, who is third in line to be President, believes that we should have targeted an Iranian grunt militiaman, not their second in command.
That's her definition of "disproportionate."
CNN, like Pelosi, must think that the death of a contractor is collateral damage, but the death of the general who sanctioned it is murder.
-PJ
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posted on
01/06/2020 4:11:04 PM PST
by
Political Junkie Too
(Freedom of the press is the People's right to publish, not CNN's right to the 1st question.)
To: Political Junkie Too
I think you may be on to something.
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posted on
01/06/2020 4:13:16 PM PST
by
fhayek
To: Mr. Mojo
Disproportionate retaliation is what Trump learned from the Russian.
It always works.
To: Mr. Mojo
To: Mr. Mojo
War is not a sum zero +1 game.
To: Bruce Campbells Chin
Disproportionate retaliation is truly what we have here. Soleiimani killed 600 or more American soldiers and Trump only kill one Soleimani. One down 599 to go.
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posted on
01/06/2020 4:29:06 PM PST
by
Kozy
(new age haruspex; "Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.")
To: Mr. Mojo
You try and car jack me and I shoot you....I don’t try and car jack you back just to be “proportionate”.
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posted on
01/06/2020 4:29:47 PM PST
by
Bonemaker
(invictus maneo)
To: Political Junkie Too
The entire Iranian Military is not worth the fingernail of a Marine, Army Airborn, Navy of Airman....or any other American for that matter. Having said that, the purpose of the US military is to win our wars. There must be a plan and a capability to completely annihilate any foe at any time. Im quoting MacArthur here who told the Cadets If you fail the nation will be destroyed. God help us if we fail now. Obama did his best to bring us down. We must mobilize the entire nation to fight the forces who are attacking America body and soul.
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posted on
01/06/2020 4:41:44 PM PST
by
Torahman
(Remember the Maccabees)
To: Mr. Mojo
I just remembered that when Obie took office the Army did away with its Overwhelming Force mantra.
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posted on
01/06/2020 4:47:37 PM PST
by
gov_bean_ counter
(Trump didnÂ’t want an AG, he wanted a consigliere.)
To: Mr. Mojo
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posted on
01/06/2020 4:49:18 PM PST
by
Fledermaus
(Horowitz was a waste of time and money, Barr and Durham better not be.)
To: Mr. Mojo
Suggested targets for disproportionate retaliation:
Let's go Team America on their Shitte asses
To: Mr. Mojo
"If they put one of yours in the hospital, you put one hundred of theirs in the morgue."
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posted on
01/06/2020 5:16:43 PM PST
by
Hebrews 11:6
(Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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