BTW, fun fact you all may already know: John Dowd was appointed as a special investigator for MLB for A. Bartlett Giamatti, and put together the investigation and lengthy report on Pete Rose that led to the latter’s lifetime ban.
He knows from special investigations and self-incrimination by testimony (which is what Rose did.)
Heh… I kinda didn’t know that it was the same John Dowd. It’s funny you bring that up because Rose and Trump seem a lot alike, although at least Rose has the real life statistics to back up his talk.
“Now I’m F—ing Doing It My Way”: Jubilant and Self-Liberated, the President Prepares for War with Mueller
With John Dowd out, John Kelly and Ty Cobb marginalized, Joseph diGenova on board, and Marc Kasowitz possibly returning, the next battle comes into focus.
That’s the Pentagon doing its job: planning for contingencies. If an adversary wiped out our power grid with a nuke detonation 250 miles above the surface wouldn’t we respond with nukes? Why respond differently if the grid was taken down by a cyber attack?
The proposal isn’t the problem… it’s who’d be responsible for making the decisions that we should be concerned about!
Um, no. There’s no such thing as a nuke that only takes out a power grid, and if there was, and someone used it, we wouldn’t (or shouldn’t) kill millions of people in retaliation.
Military: Mister President, China just nuked the power grid over NYC!
President: Those bastards, millions dead, for what?!
Military: No, actually, it’s just some power lines and everyone in Manhattan needs to eat their ice cream now before it melts.
President: …
A foreign adversary “taking out” our power grid, whatever that means, does not mean nukes. There’s such a thing as proportionate response, and though maybe you agree with Mr. Bolton that that’s just a silly antiquated idea and we should just start lobbing nukes, the rest of the world does not.