Proportionate response

^Skibum and I have been taken off "ignore" again for the 117th time

There was an editorial this morning about how Israel must respond to the attack from Iran with sufficient force to deter further attacks. Contrarily, others point to the inefficacy of the Iranian attack and the defense provided by Jordan as reasons to "take the 'win'" as Brandon told Netanyahu. It reminds me of when Trump's admin got Soleimani and Iran retaliated with a ballistic missile attack against a US airbase in Iraq. There were no deaths, but there were unspecified injuries. The US boasted that the retaliation by Iran was ineffective. We later learned that there were very serious concussive injuries and TBIs to troops stationed at the airbase. Even before those reports, I felt that the US should have responded by completely destroying wherever those missiles were launched from, wherever they had been stored prior to use or deployment, and wherever they had been manufactured. Likewise, Israel killed the Iranian Quds general who had planned the Hamas attack in October. The difference is that the US is not surrounded by countries which have vowed its destruction, has the global economic and military clout to take bigger swings at enemies, and does not live on the knife's edge of destruction by enemies within and without. Israel should do the opposite of whatever Brandon advises. I have noticed a trend among Boomers that they fail to learn from their mistakes. Even as they advance in age, they mistakenly believe that their life experience gives them the respectability to offer advice. I know more than few boomers who are or were aged past 55, make less than $50,000/year in their career (not semi-retired), and love to give advice to Gen X like myself. Invariably, it has been poor advice. When I do the opposite or follow my own analysis and gut, I achieve better results. Brandon is another failed Boomer. He has been on the wrong side of every policy decision of his career. He opposed the mission into Pakistan to get bin Laden! Has anyone forgotten the complete disaster he made of Afghanistan and the US shame of Bagram airbase? A ruined southern border. Rampant inflation. I do not need to rehash known facts. Brandon advises Israel not to retaliate against Iran. Israel should listen to Brandon's advice, and do the opposite.

Stupid person = someone who denigrates an entire religion. Shortly after 9/11 I had a coworker who was Iranian and Muslim. He told me that his Imam preached that the first Jihad was within one's own soul. This Jihad was to rid yourself of the hatred and fear that drove heinous murderers like the Ayatollah, bin Laden, and Hamas. He was in Community College at the time, and would go on to work his way through med school to become an Orthopedic Surgeon. I have another former colleague in New Orleans. A lovely, seriously gorgeous, MILF practicing medicine in New Orleans. She always told me she was Lebanese. She is fairly Caucasian with dirty blonde hair. She is very good in her field and very invested in her patients' welfare; but I always felt she was in pain. We met up recently at a conference. After dinner, she confided in us that she was raised in Lebanon but her family is Palestinian and she was born in the Palestinian Territories. I was very hurt that she felt she had to hide her true family history. She was telling us now, because she feels that anyone who looks at her sees only a Muslim and a potential terrorist. That is not the country that we should be and not the world I want to live in. I'm a Christian. Two of my best staff are Muslims. Some of my worst are Christians. The only one I have terminated for cause was a Jew who repeatedly overbilled Medicare and jeopardized the entire practice.

@wisetoo - generational brackets are loosely defined and inherentely include several years on either side of each end. The ideas and behaviors of an individual born in that gray area determine which generation they more closely align with by paradigm. One of the other "boomer"s I specifically had in mind was also born in 1941, but had the same failures of terrible judgement and narcissistic self-assurance that Biden has. This is the same ignorance of their own terrible judgement and narcisstic self-importance that most Boomers have. @puddytat69 - I am the first person to agree with President Trump that we should not be immigrating people from shithole countries. I never said Muslim countries were flawless paradises that should be emulated worldwide. The statement, "Islam is a cancer eating away at the world" is genocidal and morally equivalent to the statement "Hitler had it right, but he failed to finish the job". As a matter of fact, I feel that the Holy Land is much safer in the hands of the Israelis than it would be under any Muslim government. I fail to see what in my statement regarding respecting the humanity of Muslims would cause you to feel attacked.