"The old unpredictability, military preparedness, and deterrence"

We were led to these thoughts (but they could not make us think) by The New Republic, who quoted the third paragraph w/o comment. It's easily the silliest, but we found paragraph 2), in which gentleman farmer V. D. Hanson recaps some historical pirates & how they've been dealt with, the most interesting.As so often, Mr. (Is he a professor of some sort? We just can't remember.) Davis' command of history, such as it is, stops a few hundred yrs. short of the present day*, as does his National Darwinist (we just invented that, clever, huh?)  foreign policy. So we can hardly blame him if he forgets that in more recent history "disproportionate measures" have often been favorites of the Nazis, to name one group.

Of course, "lethal air assaults" are so much easier than lining up a bunch of French civilians & killing ten or twenty for each Nazi occupier killed by partisans. Modern warfare really is neat, isn't it, Vic?

And paragraph 4) deserves full reproduction:

4) The Obamists better be careful in their serial apologetics, "Bush did it" throat-clearing, and caving to European, Russia, Turkish, etc. agendas. Slowly, but clearly we are establishing a new atmosphere in which the old unpredictability, military preparedness, and deterrence will be lost, replaced by a touchy-feely sort of seminar discussion, laced with atonement, reaction. And then the two-bit pirates who boast "We are not afraid of the Americans" will be the least of our problems.

Be careful Obamists! Victor Davis Hanson has warned you. Get back to that "old unpredictability." AmeriKKKa can be safe only if the rest of the world, which for some reason doesn't like us as much as it used to, can never tell just who or where will be lethally air assaulted next.

*What do you think V. D.'s opinion of that "Enlightenment" thing a few hundred yrs. back is?