No offense, but that’s a nice dream. It’ll never happen.
It’s no more a dream from our side than Feinstein’s position is from hers. When one side pushes, you have to push back harder to make it stop. This idea of a measured response only causes us to lose ground, one pebble at a time. Let them know we’re serious. If they sto pushng, ghen ee can back down, but don’t react, be proactive.
I’ve actually won many a battle in the boardroom by taking this aproach, by anticipating my enemy’s moves, waiting for them to make their initial attack against my plan, and then coming fom them with such a strong, aggresive counterpunch that they’re completely shocked and unprepared. Everything dies down and status quo results, because they fear that I really will follow through with my threatened actions - because they know that I will, I did it in the past.