Ending a Potential Armed Dispute without Violence Is NOT Failure

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58. It is also NOT success. The world is complex.

Everybody patting themselves on the back for disavowing one or the other of two comic-book level idiocies.

Whatever.

There should not have been a bloodbath (duh)

Slightly more complex is that this is an unsustainable model of government reaction. Not that it was wrong in this instance, but that it cannot be sustained. It was a failure of the system.

It does not follow from that observation that some crazy response would be a success. Just because a is a failure of the system does not mean that any conceivable b would be a success of the system.

It is a no win situation being discussed by (some) folks who cannot think in terms other than games, featuring binary victory, and that lack of perspective poisons the whole conversation.

Usually, grown-ups will hope this sort of thing is sui generis but recognize that it is probably not. And since the response that is best in this instance is unsustainable, the correct response will change if the problem becomes sustained.

A more tactical response to a situation similar to this is not unthinkable, it is merely premature. Unwarranted at this time. Perhaps the problem will not be sustained, which would be awesome.