It's as I suspected.
There might have been bloodshed, so the decision was made not to go in.
Maybe there should be some bloodshed. This is a culture war--it has been a cold one for the last fortysomething years, maybe its time for a hot war. Traditional American values v. the Culture of Death, the Culture of Satan, the Culture of Scientology. Traditional American values must emerge completely triumphant or America as we know it will be completley destroyed. Its Thermidor or Waterloo for American values... How the outcome of this passes determines which one it will be
I think it may come to that, but I'd like to have enough of a strategy in mind so that we're acting in a time and manner that suits us, rather than react to provocation. It may very well be that the war we have to fight will be political, not literal.