The West Wing on proportional response

May 11, 2013 | 9 Comments »

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  1. Both the Left AND the Right have contributed to the weakening and possible destruction of the country and for what? For Islam to take over!

  2. yamit82 Said:

    …it’s too late. The anti-establishment ‘make love not war’ crowd of the 60?s have won. Leftist radicals are hard wired into changing societies and conservatives into preserving what is and was. Leftists are pro active and conservatives are passive. Leftists have the advantage.

    give hope, the pendulum swings, one things is certain: things change; after that we search for the reasons why. 🙂

  3. I love it but the problem is that “proportionate response” is international law meaning that it is an agreed PC policy of the robot parrot clones. I have been arguing for disproportionate response and for dumping limited warfare for years. It is an idiotic suicidal robotic policy which makes terror “sustainable”.

  5. Dr. Steve Carol Said:

    The question now remains: When will the American public (and for its sake, the Israeli public)

    As for America, it’s too late. The anti-establishment ‘make love not war’ crowd of the 60’s have won. Leftist radicals are hard wired into changing societies and conservatives into preserving what is and was. Leftists are pro active and conservatives are passive. Leftists have the advantage.

    For Israel? As Long as our political and military leaders cling to the American skirts we may never pursue and independent course. Vassals behave as Vassals in our case willingly. History has shown that Empires always viewed vassals with disdain and as expendable when their value to the Empire declined. France and Israel comes to mind as a recent example.

    Israel is Americas useful idiot. We allow America to use us for leverage with the Arabs and as a sales tool to sell hundreds of $$$billions in weapons to the Arabs. For a lousy $3 billion A year America gets a huge added value. For every $billion Israel receives our enemies recive 10-20 times more. All of that is contingent on Israel being obedient and serving the interests of America.

    Our leaders project to the public that our interests and Americas inters are indistinguishable. The majority of the Israeli people seem to agree and are willing to sacrifice our interests to Americas. Some concede that we have no choice based on the alternatives.

  6. A Proportional Response

    Bartlet: Did you know that two thousand years ago a Roman citizen could walk across the face of the known world free of the fear of molestation? He could walk across the earth unharmed, cloaked only in the words “Civis Romanis” – I am a Roman citizen. So great was the retribution of Rome, universally understood as certain, should any harm befall even one of its citizens. Where was Morris’s protection, or anyone else on that plane? Where is the retribution for the families and where is the warning to the rest of the world that Americans shall walk this earth unharmed, lest the clenched fist of the most mighty military force in the history of mankind comes crashing down on your house!? In other words, Leo, what the hell are we doing here?
    Leo: We are behaving the way a superpower ought to behave.
    Bartlet: Well, our behavior has produced some pretty crappy results. In fact, I’m not a hundred percent sure it hasn’t induced them.

  7. You see, the libs know what should and could be done, because they can write it, and act it, but they

    cannot DO it…

  8. The question now remains: When will the American public (and for its sake, the Israeli public) demand that life imitate art — in this case this particular scenario from this particular episode of “The West Wing.” Only then will the enemies of the US, Israel and the West in general take us seriously and begin to consider that they can’t count on proportional responses and will have to pay a HIGH price for their acts of aggression and terrorism.
    Dr. Steven Carol
    Prof. of History (retired)
    Official Historian and
    Associate Producer of
    Middle East Radio Forum
    http://www.middleeastradioforum.org

  9. Wow!! And this TV program was about a Democratic president and with writers and actors who were likely all liberals! Martin Sheen who plays the president is also known as a liberal.
    Many years ago I was a Democrat but that was before Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, and those other leftist criminals, hijacked that entire party.