Sometimes, the best thing you can do is to piss your enemies off to the point they start blindly lashing out. That makes them more vulnerable, so wait for the opportune moment and go for the kill. "By any means necessary."
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I can't claim to have the strategic talents of a von Clausewitz or a Sun Tzu (though I suspect I may be cleverer in this area than that late stage wunderkind, "transformational military" theorist Don Rumsfeld).
Even so, it seems to me that a sober assessment of our situation reveals that no one on this side of the aisle is in a position to work enemies into a blind frenzy so they're vulnerable to a decisive hammer strike.
Where are my slick, ubiquitous media conglomerates to frame and shape the terms of the debate? Where are my Panzer divisions to demonstrate who's boss?
In short, where's the hammer?
Without these things, and more, which our adversaries have in abundance, dramatic slips of the tongue and keyboard get rapidly shaped into weapons to be launched right back at you.
As I wrote earlier about this topic, his hot headed words don't (or shouldn't) bestow a passport to the land of self-righteously over-the-top Churchill bashing so many have way too eagerly entered.
Still, portraying all this as part of some clever maneuver (like a rhetorical version of Zhukov's Stalingrad operation) is inaccurate.
.d.
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