Posted on 01/29/2024 8:30:44 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Former national security adviser John Bolton called for “disproportionate” strikes inside Iran after a drone attack killed three U.S. service members in Jordan over the weekend.
Bolton said Sunday night on NewsNation that the U.S. needs to carry out retaliatory attacks in the wake of the deadly drone strike. He said the U.S. needs to “impose enough pain on Iran” to ensure it does not attempt a similar attack on the U.S. again.
“To be clear, I don’t think it should be proportionate. I think it should be disproportionate. That’s how you create deterrence in the mind of your adversary, that the cost to them of attacking our forces is so high they won’t do it again,” he said.
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“proportionate”
I don’t know Bolton’s religion or if he has one. But he uses the word “proportionate” twice because he’s a bit angry that Catholic just war theory which has some influence and which says uses of defense must be “proportionate” has gotten in his way at times. Personally, I can’t stand him. I think he’s a backstabbing chickenhawk like Lindsey Graham. Let the neocons and their children lead the first wave into battle.
“That would be 3,000,000”
I think your number might be a little off as the entire white population of the Confederate States was about 5 million people.
the issue is not Bolton the issue is Iran is waging a war against us and killing our soldiers. You use Bolton to say no, when someone is killing american troops.
Yes. He's like a pit bull. You put a muzzle on him 24/7, usually. Now it's the time to take the muzzle off when it comes to Iran.
If we do nothing, Iran is just going to hit us harder later. So we have no choice, unfortunately.
Thanks to Joe Biden.
Well, Walrus, we had a President who would do that, and do it without undue risk of all out war, but his flunkies, er, subordinates stabbed him in the back and now he’s not President.
You should do the disproportionate thing and commit seppuku with a wood chipper, John.
Yes it might be, may have gotten that confused with the north (2.7 million enlisted).
Although you have to remember the border states added perhaps another 1.5 million population and many fought for the south. Maybe more like 1.5 million counting the Border states.
Either way that’s a lot of genocide Bolton wished for.
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