Of course we won't fight back. That would be mean.
Instead we'll roll over with our legs in the air and play dead. Then Obama will give a lecture that some foreign leader will smirk through and then sign a worthless foreign accord with them. Because Munich is now a weekly event.
This is just the latest forum for Obama to get his best Munich on.
Despite evidence of Russia hacking into U.S. election systems, President Obama said Monday that he doesn’t want to escalate into a “wild, wild West” cyberwar with Moscow.
Emerging from a 90-minute meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in China, Mr. Obama acknowledged that the Russians have been attacking U.S. institutions on the Internet.
“We’ve had problems with cyber intrusions from Russia in the past, from other countries in the past,” Mr. Obama said.
But he suggested that he doesn’t want to retaliate.
“Our goal is not to suddenly in the cyber arena duplicate a cycle of escalation that we saw when it comes to other arms races in the past, but rather to start instituting some norms so that everybody’s acting responsibly,” Mr. Obama said. “What we cannot do is have a situation in which suddenly this becomes the wild, wild West, where countries that have significant cyber capacity start engaging in unhealthy competition or conflict through these means.”
They're being quite responsible in that they are pursuing their national interests. Russia and China pursue their national interests by subverting ours. Obama subverts our national interest by refusing to fight back.
Who's really being irresponsible here?