[frank ballenger]

That Friendly Persuasion stuff is beneath contempt for me.
It merely strengthens Satan on this earthly plane and enables killers to find future victims.

The hostages held in a home invasion or during a bank robbery or school takeover try to plead with the evil ones, begging and projecting their own goodness onto the sociopathic or psychotic criminals. It doesn’t work.

In the early 1970s a favorite Arab ploy was to grab young Jewish children and take them to an upper floor of a building. As the parents watched below the Arabs would taunt them and laugh at them, then dropped the children down to their deaths.

Nonviolence does harm.

[Dr. Sivana]

That Friendly Persuasion stuff is beneath contempt for me.

That is a mischaracterization.

There is a reason why all the great strategists from Sun Tzu to Machiavelli instruct that going in full-throttle even with a superior advantage is often not the best way to achieve objectives.

The hostage situation you describe was not happening against the U.S. when we went in. Eight months ago, nobody here, or in many other quarters suggested a full on assault of Iran. Most of us thought the July 2025 bunker buster bombs to take out the nuke program was sufficient.

There is no political will in this country for "boots on the ground" in Iran, and unfortunately, the Iranians know that.

I do not hear anyone talking about invading Red China. They have a lot more blood on their hands, and are far bigger threat. Both Red China and North Korea have made explicit threats to the U.S. over the years.

Going full John Bolton is rarely the best answer.