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White House Promises “Proportional Response” to Sony Hack
Posted By Daniel Greenfield On December 18, 2014 @ 4:26 pm In The Point | 13 Comments
The White House and its media corps lambasted Israel for disproportionately bombing Hamas in response to its murders of Israelis and rocket attacks. The criticism however makes no sense.
And yet the White House is promising a proportional response to the Sony hack.
White House press secretary Josh Earnest addressed the cyber-attack against Sony over the movie The Interview at Thursday’s daily briefing. Earnest promised a “proportional response.”
REPORTER: What is the United States going to do about it?
JOSH EARNEST, WHITE HOUSE: Well, before we start publicly speculating about a response, it’s appropriate that we allow the investigation to move forward. I do understand that the investigation is progressing, and that as the members of the national security team meet to discuss the matter, they are considering a range of options. As they do so, though, they are mindful of a couple of things.
First of all, as we would be in any scenario, sort of strategic scenario like this, they would be mindful of the fact that we need a proportional response. And also mindful of the fact that sophisticated actors, when they carry out actions like this are often times — not always, but often — seeking to provoke a response from the United States of America. They may believe that a response from us in one fashion or another would be advantageous to them. And so we want to be mindful of that, too, and the president’s national security team is mindful of those two important strategic considerations as they consider a range of available responses
To parse the last part of that gibberish, Obama’s smart liberal power tells us not to respond to North Korea because that will just give it what it wants.
But as for the rest of it, what is a proportional response to unconventional warfare anyway?
Do we hack one of the movie studios they don’t have and post private correspondence from the party bosses who run it and then threaten that if the release of Yankee American Devils Go to Hell goes forward that we might possibly bomb their theaters?
This situation reminds us that the whole talking point of the proportional response is meaningless concept that has no application, especially when dealing with terrorists.
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