SWJ - FP - This Week at War # 7
SWJ's 7th weekly contribution to Foreign Policy - This Week at War by Robert Haddick - is now posted. Topics include - Afghan troop request? Approved. Afghan strategy? “Not pre-determined.” - Preparing for hybrid warfare - Will the U.S. receive a nasty “postcard from Mumbai”?
Massive consequences ....
at little costs to the bad guys:
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from Schmedlap
Granted, a SWAT team would eventually gun him down, but not until the entire country is freaking out, the markets crash further, and the country is pushed to the brink of turning into something resembling New Orleans during the flood.
Have done the same imagining myself (great minds, etc. :D).
How a nation reacts to pain is a measure of its greatness - and the greatness of its leaders. Unfortunately, the consequences outlined above are what I also see as a result of such incidents.
Since 9/11, we (civilians) have been told to go shopping by our leaders. None of them (that I recall) have made any real attempt to educate the US public that losses are going to be sustained - but that they can be tolerated without reducing this nation to chaos.
I am not saying accept those losses like a herd of prey animals. What I am suggesting is an attitude similar to that in the match scene in the initial scenes of Lawrence of Arabia: "The trick is not to notice it." So, the pain will be there - get even. Let us not act like a herd of frightened sheep.