[cicero's_son]

Hmmm.

You're an incrementalist, then? I wouldn't have thought so from some of your previous posts.

I'm very pleased that the President has bided his time before responding, but I'm hoping for a total overwhelming reponse once he is ready.

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The response should be hard and forceful. That's true. I don't think we ought to get involved in any Vietnam style incrementalism. I just hope we have realizable goals and an end strategy.

Hanson is too in love with the idea of total victory and transforming other societies. National Review is right about the need for force now, but their advice may involve making too many enemies in the hope of ultimate victory.

Still it's a tough call. You don't want to leave your actual enemy crippled and liable to strike again, but you don't want to destroy so much that you make more enemies for the future.