“Measured response” is for losers - or for those who don’t care all that much about surviving or winning.

The United States fought three significant wars where our strategy was a “measured response”:  Korea, Vietnam, and most recently Afghanistan.

Our thinking, if you can call it that, was that we have such overwhelming power we dare not use it. It might be considered “unfair” if we did.  So we didn’t use it.  We held back.

This was seen over and over in Afghanistan via our “rules of engagement.”  Basically it was “don’t fire until fired upon.”  On top of that, we must not do anything that might be perceived as insulting the enemy, his culture, and his satanic religion whose primary tenant is to erase the infidel.  In fact, we must not have any sign of Christian or Jewish religion within sight of the enemy or he might not just merely be offended but might be made angry.

Fast forward to Kenosha, Wisconsin and the Kyle Rittenhouse trial.

The same demented mentality is being applied in that trial by the persecution, err - prosecution.  The argument is attempted that Rittenhouse brought a gun to a…to a…to a what?  A street party"?  A carnival?  A demonstration?

Or did the prosecution deliberately ignore the fact that Kyle was asked to help some of the merchants protect their businesses during three nights of riots, burning and looting.  And all in a city where its leaders told both the police force and National Guard to “stand down.”

The prosecution deceptively framed the shootings as if there were seconds or minutes for Kyle to assess his situation, review his options, and act on the best one.  In fact, there were split seconds to act or die.

That sounds familiar.  Our troops in Afghanistan were told countless times to stand down.  We might use too much force.  We might have even won – God forbid. Many unnecessarily died.

So Kyle brought his gun to the town where most of his family lived, Kenosha, at the request of friends.  Why?  To help them protect their businesses from rioting, burning and looting in the absence of law enforcement who were told to stand down.

Kyle must have appeared to the rioters as a goody goofball worthy of being attacked.  So they did.  A number of the mob, not sure how many, but several, decided to teach this kid a lesson.  First by pummeling him with a skate board.  Skate boards weigh up to five pounds, by the way, as much as a sledge hammer. And while he was down on the ground another “innocent Amish boy” took some time out from burning and looting to promote “social justice” and pointed his Glock at him.

Kyle fired his AR.

For this, the prosecution claimed he used “excessive force.”  He should have used his fists but he was “too cowardly” to do that.  Shades of our Afghanistan rules of engagement – our incompetent leaders told us to figuratively use our fists, which in that case meant “play nice.”

This to me sounds like rampant insanity, both in wars and in riots.  We are told to do nothing to defend ourselves and to do as little as possible to win.

The first insane thing was to tell police and National Guard to stand down, allowing the mob to burn, loot, and riot.

The second insane thing was to mock, demean and legally harass those who not only attempt to protect their community but those who take measures to defend their own life in the face of mob attack. They call such civic minded folks “vigilantes.”

This is life in another dimension.

By the way, Mark and Patricia McCloskey are also present in Kenosha to provide support to Rittenhouse.  They suffered similar persecution for merely holding weapons – leftist media calls it “brandishing” - on their front yard to defend against demonstrators who broke into their gated community.

I pray that every clear thinking person not imbued with a will to die or leftist dementia will take advantage of all available measures to defend himself and prevail if found in a similar situation.

And our nation should do the same in any war it feels necessary to engage in.