http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023557729Oh my.
From the title, I was assuming this was about the brain-damaged primitive, but it's not.
cthulu2016 (8,810 posts) Thu Aug 29, 2013, 02:25 PM
Running one's mouth sometimes leads to Trouble.
The time to game out hypothetical potential results of running one's mouth is before running one's mouth.
Once the idea of "punishing" Assad for probably having done "the unthinkable" was plopped on the table this week, everybody who looked at it quickly recognized that it is not a good plan.
To intervene in a civil war where you do not even know which side you want to win is folly.
To attack military assets of one side in a civil war with the public stance that you do not seek to affect the outcome is bizarre.
Thus drawing a line in the sand was a poor idea unless one was certain the line would not be crossed.
Were we certain the line would not be crossed?
If we were certain than we were wrong in our assessment. If we were NOT certain, then why were we drawing a line in the sand?
Never deliver an ultimatum without considering BOTH scenarios that follow from it.
Brand-new campfire, just lit, but it's worth bringing over to point out one of the principal characteristics of primitivity, which is that primitives
never consider all possibilities and probabilities, primitives never allow for unexpected--and sometimes unpleasant--consequences.
Primitives tend to think only to a desired conclusion, and then stop thinking.
