Hey America! Don't like some law? Get together a couple hundred of your friends with guns!

[Savannahmann]

80. Do you remember Elian Gonzales?

Because if you had your way, there would have been a war in Miami instead of the achievement of the goal.

Let's review what happened in Miami shall we? The Federal Government de-escalated the confrontation and then retrieved the boy with zero casualties. Mission accomplished, and with no dead or injured. A brilliant use of strategic vision.

If you were in charge, the headlines on Sunday would have been about the American Tienanmen Square massacre. Thankfully that did not happen.

Force is best used as a scalpel, slicing as little as possible. You would use it as a sledgehammer bashing your way in. So let's play what if?

The use of the sledgehammer approach at Waco and Ruby Ridge was the justification behind the bombing of Oklahoma City and the bombing of the Olympic Park. In other words, much as we are relearning in the war on terror bashing people inspires more to resist. You never see Elian Gonzales as a poster child for Federal Abuses. You would give them the Range War they want. I wonder why?

Are you so obtuse as to believe that bashing people and killing them makes the victims anything but martyrs? Are you so immature as to believe that gunfights and maiming and death are cool? Even if Federal Authorities had won, it would have instigated more resistance instead of less. Republicans would have had a massive GOTV campaign. Thankfully the people in power are not so obtuse nor as immature. They are looking for the strategic victory, not a tactical win that dooms the nation and the party.