Question:  What would be the correct PROPORTIONATE response to Pearl Harbor for Americans?

Answer:  A surprise attack on a Japanese military base destroying a PROPORTIONATELY large number of naval ships and other military equipment and massacring 2,335 military and 68 civilians.  Anything more would be DISPROPORTIONATE!!

Question:  What would be the correct PROPORTIONATE response to 9/11?

Answer:  Massacre 2,973 (de facto pro-Islamic Brotherhood) Arabs in the countries (Egypt and Saudi Arabia) from which the ‘Freedom Fighter Hijackers’ came – 2,749 civilians in buildings and 224 more in military headquarters and a commercial jet.  Anything more would be DISPROPORTIONATE!!

Question:  What would be the correct PROPORTIONATE response for Israelis to October 7, 2023?

Answer:  Massacre 1,139 civilians personally up-close with rapes, beheadings of babies, burning babies to death in ovens, etc. and the kidnapping of the PROPORTIONATE requisite number of civilians to rape, torture, starve to death and kill until the CEASEFIRE that would then be PROPORTIONATE.  Anything more would be DISPROPORTIONATE!!

Note 1:  Sometime after WWII – how and when I have no idea – the Geneva Conventions for legal warfare NO LONGER assigned Capital War Crime status for those who ACTUALLY USE Human Shields for the deaths and injuries of such Human Shields.

Note 2:  During the 1990s (without UN approval), the heroic NATO bombings of Serbia also killed a perpetually unspecified number of 100% uncoerced patriotic volunteer Serbian Civilians who chose to be Human Shields (many with ‘targets’ self-placed on their bodies) standing on bridges and other ‘infrastructure.’  (Other than Serbia and Russia, I do not remember anyone in the entire world objecting.)