Lysistrata! The plan didn’t work then and it won’t work now.
Kind of the opposite. In Lysistrata the women cut off sex to stop the killing. Here, Better is threatening to cut off the sex to continue killing - because ten Holocausts of death isn't enough for the American Left.
It DID work in Lysistrata! At least in the context of the play. :D But unlike here, the Greek women went on strike for a good reason.
Which brings back a funny memory. We read Lysistrata in a Comedy class in college...of course being ultra-liberal college students everyone was snickering at all the sexual innuendo in it. But when it came time to write a paper on it, I dug into the story deeper and ended up arguing that despite the subject matter, it was actually a very conservative play. The women represented family life and home (they defended the Acropolis with chamber pots, cooking utensils etc.). And at the end the women get the men to agree to peace terms by trotting out a drop-dead gorgeous woman called “Peace”. But interestingly, the amorous men don’t go after her, they all go back to their wives.
Lysistrata’s withholding of sex wasn’t an end in itself and it wasn’t purely for titillation or pleasure or power...it was a reminder to the men of all the comforts of home that they were harming by war.
I got the paper back with a very nice note from the professor that I was one of the only students who got past all the innuendo and really understood the point Aristophanes was making.
And I also learned—despite all the contrary propaganda—that conservatives write better literature and understand great literature far better than liberals do. I still stand by that! :)