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Oh, you think there is another option besides “offensive” and “defensive” strategies?

What are the other options?

I’ll make it simple, since you clearly have no personal experience with war, battle, fighting, even on a perosnal level I suspect.

Make it personal, so that you can’t miss the point.

Your family home is attacked daily by thugs in the neighborhood. Each day without response, the attcks get worse. You are certain that they will eventually kill your family if YOU don’t DO SOMETHING!

What are your options and label them offensive (pre-emptive), defensive (reactionary) or whatever other strategy you think exists...

There are only two forms of defense. a) Hunker down, fortify the fort and wait for the attack. b) Pursue the enemy before they can attack. Which one do you support and why?

Ah, now I see. You decree there are only two ways we can defend ourselves: -- Then insist that your opponent can only choose one,
- which if its "hunker", -- makes him an "isolationist".
-- That's not "neo-con reasoning", but it sure ain't very rational.

Rational men [lots of libertarians are rational] understand that [constitutionally speaking], we can defend ourselves against enemies, both foreign and domestic, as we see fit, - as long as we do not deny persons in the USA their rights to life, liberty, or property, - in so doing.

Oh, you think there is another option besides offensive and defensive strategies? What are the other options?

The options are only limited by our Constitution and our imaginations. We successfully won the Cold War using those options, imo.

I'll make it simple, since you clearly have no personal experience with war, battle, fighting, even on a perosnal level I suspect.

I was on the line in Germany with the 503/502nd Airborne Infantry for a couple of years in the mid-'50s. Your personal remarks make you look like a fool.

Make it personal, so that you can't miss the point.
Your family home is attacked daily by thugs in the neighborhood. Each day without response, the attcks get worse. You are certain that they will eventually kill your family if YOU don't DO SOMETHING! What are your options and label them offensive (pre-emptive), defensive (reactionary) or whatever other strategy you think exists...

Go suck an egg. -- You "clearly" imagine you can order FReepers about, thereby controlling the discussion. -- Get a grip on your strategical delusions.