[High Praise! to According to Hoyt]
I believe not in isolationism but in overkill. I believe that when attacked a country should do only one thing: retaliate hard enough to make the other guy afraid to do it again.
I don’t believe in bombing aspirin factories. I believe in bombing to the stone age.
“There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice.”
— Grover Cleveland
James Foley had 3 problems
1) he was white
2) he wasn’t a muslim
3) although he was probably a liberal, he wasn’t an outright anti-American radicalized zealot whose release would demoralize Americans.
why would Hussein Al-Barak lift a finger to help?
How many years after the Enola Gay flew over Hiroshima was it before Japan attacked, or declared war on The U.S.A. ?? What?? Never !!
You know why? War is an escalation of every version of the “Who’s got the bigger balls” contest which has been a part of evolution in every species on this planet since there was oxygen. You need the “bigger balls” to pass on your genes. SCIENCE!