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BARTLET
What is the virtue of a proportional response?
FITZWALLACE
I’m sorry.
BARTLET
What’s the virtue of a proportional response? Why’s it good? [beat] They hit an
airplane, so we hit a transmitter, right? That’s a proportional response.
FITZWALLACE
Sir, in the case of Pericles...
BARTLET
They hit a barracks, so we hit two transmitters?
FITZWALLACE
That’s roughly it, sir.
BARTLET
It’s what we do. I mean this is what we do.
LEO
Yes sir, it’s what we do, it’s what we’ve always done.
BARTLET
Well, if it’s what we do, if it’s what we’ve always done, don’t they know we’re
going to do it?
LEO
Sir, if you would turn your attention to Pericles One.
BARTLET
I have turned my attention to Pericles One, it’s two ammo dumps, an abandoned
railroad bridge and a Syrian intelligence agency.
FITZWALLACE
Those are four high rated military targets, sir.
BARTLET
But they know we’re going to do that, they know we’re going to do that. Those areas
have been abandoned for four days. We know that from the satellites. We have the
intelligence.
LEO
Sir.
BARTLET
They did that, so we did this, it’s the cost of doing business, it’s been factored
in, right?
LEO
Mr. President...
BARTLET
Am I right or am I missing something here?
FITZWALLACE
No sir, you’re right sir.
BARTLET
Then I ask again, what is the virtue of a proportional response?
FITZWALLACE
It isn’t virtuous Mr. President. It’s all there is sir.
BARTLET
It is not all there is.
LEO
Sir, Admiral Fitzwallace...
FITZWALLACE
Excuse me Leo, but pardon me Mr. President, just what else is there?
BARTLET
A disproportional response. Let the word ring forth from this time and this place,
you kill an American, any American, we don’t come back with a proportional response,
we come back [bangs fist on table] with total disaster!
GENERAL
Are you suggesting we carpet-bomb Damascus?
BARTLET
General, I am suggesting that you and Admiral Fitzwallace and Secretary Hutchinson
and the rest of the national security team take the next sixty minutes and put
together a U.S. response scenario that doesn’t make me think we are just docking
somebody’s damn allowance!
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The Hawk wrote:
There is not a damned thing wrong with people who are bull shitters.