>>I enlisted during Nam, so don’t give me that all or nothing crap.
I didn’t enlist for Nam, so I’m not willing to spill American blood over Filipino rocks.
>>Tariffs and sanctions are not synonyms.
Not synonyms,but they are tools in the same toolbox.
>>We need to fix our over-regulated and over-taxed policies here before talking tariffs.
Sometimes, you have to take care of more than one problem at a time. In this case, fixing one at a time is just going to counter-productive.
To characterize this as “over Filipino rocks” displays amazing ignorance.
As does not know which tools to use for the job.
No, “one at a time” is NOT “counter-productive”.
You display military resolve to minimize the potential for war.
Weakness encourages bullying.