biden's handlers' policy of "managed violence"--a.k.a. appeasement: how's that working?

biden has always been a dummy--a classic, stupid pol: glad-hander, storyteller, bullshit artist.  It's totally common.  And Democrats love it.

Being stupid, and never having served in the military nor studied military history, he doesn't understand war.  Specifically, he and his moronic handlers seem to be happy to tolerate a "low level" of killing by terrorist states.

What he (and his handlers) clearly don't understand is that tolerating a "low level" of attacks solves nothing.

If you don't understand why tolerating "low level" attacks is a problem, consider how different the world would look today if, after four years of WW2, instead of the U.S. and allies forcing both Germany and Japan to surrender unconditionally, the U.S. president had pushed for a "proportional response" and a ceasefire.
 
Instead biden's handlers apparently see terrorism as a totally reasonable response by "oppressed people"--in this case Iran and its proxies.  Given that viewpoint it would be unreasonable for the U.S. to say "If you do that again you'll be killed."

The "strategy" of tolerating endless "low-level" attacks by terrorist states arises from a handful of dumb but seductive assumptions by Dems: that all societies are equal; that "we must understand the 'root causes' that force deez po' oppressed pipo to do dis;" that there's no way to get a nation to STOP supporting terrorist attacks; and that in fact "equity" demands that we put up with the attacks.

The result is the demand by the Democrats that superior western technology be restrained, while allowing nations or non-state entities that lack advanced tech to attack as they please using "old" tech.

Of course if you're a Democrat you don't believe any of that.  Yeah, I get it.  Democrats believe there is NO link between the mullahs of Iran and the men ruling Hamas.

Really?  You Democrats seriously believe that?

Apparently biden's handlers either believe it or pretend to.  As a result, the biden regime lifts economic sanctions on Iran, allowing that country to sell billions of dollars worth of oil.

Think that might be a signal to the mullahs--which they pass on to their protege Hamas?

When the biden regime fails to respond to 170  attacks on U.S. installations in the mid-east by Iranian-backed terrorists in Yemen, Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon, think that might be a signal to the mullahs?  But as biden's handlers see it, we simply cannot wipe out missile sites in those nations--with whatever casualty count that might entail--cuz...um...uh... America “can take the hit.”  "A few dozen dead U.S. troops is a small price to pay for not escalating things," eh?

That's called appeasement, and for well over a century history shows that appeasement only assures more hits.

If you wanna stop those hits, you tell Iran--openly, for all the world to see--"If there's one more attack from you or your proxies, you die."  And then if they ignore that warning, you do what you told them--massively.

For young Americans--who have never been taught any accurate history:  In WW2 Japan's military had a long tradition of "death before surrender."  And had U.S. and allied troops been forced to invade Japan to force them to surrender to end WW2, the consensus was that that would have cost 250,000 allied casualties, and at least that many Japanese--mostly civilians.  

What happened instead?  Parents, ask your highschoolers if they know.

The U.S. dropped two atomic bombs, three days apart.  Those bombs were so devastating that after the second one the emperor's cabinet was able to overcome the generals and Japan immediately surrendered.

That's how you end a war--and prevent an endless series of guerilla attacks afterwards.  And since then Japan has been a model nation.

Think the biden regime would take such decisive action today?

Of course not.  The Democrat handlers have decided that endless terror attacks are acceptable.  A dozen dead U.S. troops mean nothing to the regime, so there's no need for a "disproportionate response" to establish the iron-clad rule that terror attacks won't be tolerated.

Instead biden's handlers have a policy of "managed violence."

Most of you probably don't know what prompted Iran's leaders to launch roughly 300 drones and missiles at Israel ten days ago.  It was a strike by Israel on Iran's embassy in Syria that killed one of the planners of the October 7th attack by Hamas that killed 1,250 Israelis.

To put that number into perspective, since the U.S. as 34 times Israel's population, so to have the same effect here an attack would have to kill 35,000 people.
 
So Israel sought to kill one of the planners.  A reasonable response would have been for Iran to take out an Israeli embassy in some other nation.  But that wouldn't have killed enough people--would have been too reasonable.  So instead Iran launched over 300 missiles and drones at Israeli cities--clearly intended to kill civilians.

Because a combination of luck and great defense prevented any casualties, biden's handlers had him tell Israel "Do not retaliate."

Israel defied biden's handlers, but its retaliation was clearly just symbolic--reportedly just three missiles, targeting defenses around a major Iranian nuclear facility.

If the leaders of Iran were rational, they'd get the message--which is, "Don't do that again."  But does anyone think they did?

Really, Democrats, let's hear your take on that.

Would the Middle East be a lot safer if Hamas and Iran decided to forego terror attacks?  Seems overwhelmingly likely.  But as long as we put up with 'em, we'll keep seeing 'em.  In essence the U.S. has signaled to Iran and other terror states that we'll put up with attacks forever--as long as they're just "low-level."

"Low-level."  Very few Americans know that before Russia invaded Ukraine biden said the U.S. would not respond to what he called a “minor incursion.”  That was a clear green light to invade, as long as a Russian invasion was just a "minor incursion."

No reporter dared to ask biden or his handlers or his incompetent Secretary of State how they defined "minor."  And now that "minor incursion has cost roughly 200,000 lives per side, and closing in on half a trillion in destruction, not to mention $300 BILLION in direct U.S. cash and arms to Ukraine.

"Managed violence," eh?  "Less expensive than the lethal 'Don't do this again or you'll die' lesson," the Dems say.  And of course accompanied by the cunning propaganda “both sides are equally at fault,” and "root causes."

If the biden/harris/garland/mayorkas regime had been in power during WW2, what would the world look like today?  biden's handlers would never have invaded Berlin, or dropped the atomic bombs that made invading Japan unnecessary.  His handlers don't seem to know history and are incompetent, and their policies ensure endless war.  

But don't worry, it's all just "low-level" war.  Of course a few million Ukrainians might disagree.

H/T Victor Davis Hanson