Leave or starve

Leave or starve is what gets called rhetoric, it's not a policy.  It is similar in nature to someone who is not a dictator-in-place saying stuff like I'm gonna...

  I'm gonna make the cops beat you up!  And I'm gonna end all wars in a day!  And I'm gonna get the/a military to...

  My problem with rhetoric is that it is more fantastical than talk from a supposed leader should be.  It's also offensive because it dishonors the real people involved in a real world where law and policy must be carried out.  We don't live in a country under a dictator who orders violence at his whim!  But violence occurs because of peoples' power to use force.  January 6th got out of hand from peoples' power/right to assemble.  Most crime that occurs in our country is abuse of power/rights to.

  The rhetoric is really most like a generic mouth standing atop a fence and crying wolf plus I'm not just going to stand up here!

  I think that rhetoric in our culture has taken the place of intelligent conversation and strategy.  It certainly comes up for people before they actually have solution or have contributed to resolution.  It amounts to as useful as the road to hell being paved with good intentions.

  It indicates we got problems.

  In leave or starve we are actually hearing people put forth the notion that we can't live this way.  Americans felt the same way about the mafia.  The world proved it felt the same way about Hitler.  Neither goal of denying the mafia or letting Hitler compromise the principles of the West was achieved by rhetoric.  And this is why we see now the West's leaders strengthening position against its enemies.

  That Iran shot ballistic missiles, more than once, at Israel escalated the contentions to nation level.  On that level of offense and defense nobody can afford to play "whack-a-mole".  We have to have a unified response.  And we have to let the military strategists defend our country.

  It's not a rally to all-out chaos and violence.  Defense doesn't negate the belief that violence is not right.  Defense protects because to be killed/destroyed is not right either.