Proportional Response

Ice skirt on stump in Lake Eastman, Rochester, New York
Ice skirt on stump in Lake Eastman, Rochester, New York

While President Obama is on vacation I’ve been thinking about this whole “proportional response’ concept. It strikes me as rather small minded, as barbaric as the bible’s “eye for an eye,” but with a little time maybe the US can come up with a creative way of conveying how uncool the hacking and threats are. Was David and Goliath proportional?

A witty response, an idea so clever that it begins to turn the tables on the dictator would be proportional. Instead of airdropping dvd copies of the sophomoric movie on North Koreans maybe they could figure out a way to solicit Hollywood movie concepts from the North Koreans. Could the CIA be any more creative than the “creative” types at Sony?

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  1. When we clamp down sanctions on these renegade countries like Iraq under Hussein, or North Korea today, we mostly deprive the poorest people of basic necessities like food . If you are going to drop dvds, at least drop Team America which is not embarrassingly unfunny.

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