The Timid Generation: Try to imagine Franklin Roosevelt or Ronald Reagan caving in to North Korea.

National Review ^ | 12/23/2014 | Victor Davis Hanson

[SeekAndFind]

Aristotle thought courage the preeminent virtue. Without it, there could be no morality. Virtue becomes a mere abstraction, a high-sounding platitude that is easy to live by in one

[Tulane]

Truly spot on....and sad.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

The government didn’t cave to NK. Neither did Sony. It was the theater owners. I don’t blame them.

[stanne]

Caving in ?

We want to go to war over an adolescent boy movie?

Wimpy are the hollywoodians making fun of assassinating the leader of an enemy country.

[DoodleDawg]

So what would Reagan do to North Korea for hacking into a private company?

[SeekAndFind]

RE: We want to go to war over an adolescent boy movie?

Who said anything about going to war?

[P-Marlowe]

When mentioning the leadership of Roosevelt and Reagan don’t leave out Churchill and Thatcher. Both Reagan and Roosevelt had strong world leaders to complement them. Right now the only leader in the world who is willing to stand up to Evil is Netanyahu.

[Texas Eagle]

Try to imagine Franklin Roosevelt or Ronald Reagan caving in to North Korea.

Trying. Trying. Trying. Oh. Something is coming into view.

[arthurus]

Perhaps there was no “cave” but rather what was done was done with the approval or connivance of this Administration for purposes of demonstrating censorship capabilities. And perhaps NK was not the source at all but rather NSA at presidential behest.

[utax]

Norks have been counterfeiting our currency for decades without suffering any consequences. And don’t forget the axe murders in 1976.

[grania]

The real issue should be Sony. They are a private corporation. Their security is a disgrace. They made a business decision to take the risk of filming a satire using the names of a real country and its leader. Business decisions should have consequences, to the business.

Sony should "man up" instead of whining to the feds to do something. The feds doing something takes away more of my freedom.

[sasportas]

Were FDR here today, he would be morphed into the typical socialist and anti-America democrat we have today. In his day, democrats weren’t as anti-war, anti-America as they are today, he would change to fit the times.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

You are exactly right.

[OneWingedShark]

They made a business decision to take the risk of filming a satire using the names of a real country and its leader.

Hypnotoad: You will kill the Prime Minister of Malasia!

[stanne]

Here’s Obama:
“No, I don’t think it was an act of war, I think it was an act of cybervandalism that was very costly, very expensive,” Obama said in an interview with CNN aired on Sunday, adding, “We take it very seriously.”

And here are a few other comments:
“We will respond, we will respond proportionally, and in a place and time that we choose,” Obama said at his year-end news conference. Why should we be responding offensively at all? As the Wall Street Journal’s Danny Yadron reported, a movie studio doesn’t reach the US government’s definition of “critical infrastructure” that would allow its military to respond under existing rules, but that didn’t stop the White House from calling the Sony hack a “national security issue” just a day later.