If war is necessary, we will be called upon and led by someone with experience who understands its costs, not by some nameless angry people who can't keep a cool head.
We all want the traitors to pay, but it's not time for the fourth box yet. Train. Lift. Run. Do what you have to in order to get your emotions in check.
But understand this: You aren't ready and neither are we. Your impulsiveness will get you and others killed. Let the legal process play out and wait for the call. If it's necessary, it will come, and we will answer.
The war starts when it needs to, not when we say we're ready. If you continue to counsel caution and patience, and playing out process versus action, you are blunting the very rage needed to achieve our ends. If you worry about timing, casualties, optics, and political ramifications, remember that as Supreme Commander of Union forces, George B. McClellan did, too. And he very nearly cost the Union its victory over the Confederacy.
You are exactly the kind of clownshoes dope the OP is talking about. Trying to compare 19th century Civil War America that had 1/10th the population, no mass media, no internet, no just-in-time inventory, and black powder weapons, with what's going on now, is the one of the more obtuse things I've seen written on this site.
Civil War means civil collapse. No more utilities, no more grocery stores, no more free wifi at starbucks. Stop being stupid. Go play some Call of Duty if you want to shoot the evildoers.
Nonsense! Have you even studied military history?? Civil war does not result in civil collapse, otherwise troops on both sides would've starved long before they ever began to score victories. It doesn't mean civil collapse now, either. Infrastructure, transportation and food distribution are still critical unless one is deliberately aiming at genocide. People have to be fed, housed and clothed if they are to fight.
We have better technology than 19th c. combattants; they had better technology than 18th c. combattants; who, in their turn, had better technology than 17th c. combattants. Changing technology does not mean changing strategy, tactics, logistics, or even the human intellect. If that were the case, there'd be absolutely no use to studying the the Civil War, the Napoleonic Wars, the 100 Years' War, the Punic Wars, or even the Persian Wars at war colleges today, which they do, intensively. There'd be no sense in our continuing regard for military manuals like Sun Tzu's Art of War, because it would simply be a curious relic.
I understand if you're frightened by the prospect of war, but think of it as diplomacy by other means. All it proves is that the combattants are serious enough to press their claims beyond the endless talk, talk, talk-stage of negotiation.
Yes, I've studied all kinds of history. You don't seem to understand how things work now, today in the 21st century, and think you can explain away 150 years of difference by rattling off a bunch of nouns.
Have you studied anything besides military history?
"Oh, well, you must be frightened then."
I take it you're some armchair warrior whose never seen actual violence. What a joke.
I'm not sure I understand where all your hostility and condescension is coming from. We have a difference of opinion on the the nature of warfare and its applicability to the US right now as our rights are being trampled openly, brazenly, right before our eyes.
If you would prefer to roll over and go back to sleep, and hope the left will somehow leave you alone, after being thus emboldened by your inaction, I wish you good luck. You'll need it. As for me, I'm in my 60s. I've lived in socialist shitholes. I've witnessed public hangings by brutalist states.
I've travelled extensively throughout the Iron Curtain countries and in the Soviet Union. And I'm here to tell you I'd rather die than endure the twilight wraithdom that comes with being a thrall of a communist dictatorship. No life thus lived has any meaning; it's one stripped of all it's dignity and humanity. You see the mask mandates--that's the least of what they have planned.
I would rather die, and I will take as many of them with me as I go...and I have had decades to think about it.
His mistake was doing so in the middle of an already hot war.
Our war isn't hot-yet.
It actually was at the beginning of the hot war. First Bull Run was a catastrophe because he was timid; the Union troops didn't want to fight or didn't know why they were even there; and, the Confederates were already full of righteous fire and laser-guided purpose. They slaughtered the Union troops and Washingtonians were appalled seeing the bedraggled and bloody men staggering back to the city.