After a tepid loss in their opening Copa América Centenario game put them under threat of elimination, the US needed a riposte against Costa Rica on Tuesday.
Lionel Messi has long had to contend with the criticism that he saves his best for Barcelona but his first hat-trick for Argentina proved a perfect riposte against those who doubted his international credentials.
In entering the war, Romania succumbed to the Allies' offers of Austro-Hungarian territory and to the belief that the Central Powers would be too much preoccupied with other fronts to mount any serious riposte against a Romanian offensive.
He said he was to launch a "powerful and massive riposte against our enemies" after he "called for and obtained France's air support within the framework of the international legality".
The Germans concentrated their riposte against the central column.
While conservatives are entitled to craft their own political talking points about how to treat arrested jihadist suspects, to paraphrase the late Senator Daniel Moynihan's riposte against an opponent, in doing so they are not entitled to make up their own facts or their own Miranda rules.
