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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (176290)11/29/2005 8:51:54 PM
From: Hawkmoon  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
I consider a blockade to be a direct attack,

I'm sure the Israelis will be happy to see that you believe a blockade is an act of war. After all, it was the blockade of the Straits of Tirat by Egypt that provoked Israel to launch their 1967 war against Nasser aimed at capturing Sharm Al Shayhk and breaking the blockade.

But I don't believe the US was engaging in a blockade against Japan. We WERE engaged in economic sanctions, and had halted oil and scrap iron shipments.. But did the US actually put a ring of ships around the Japanese homeland? That's a pretty far-fetched claim..

What is hilarious is that I have tried explaining to people that it is absurd to think that Iran wants nuclear power stations for energy when they are spending $billions on a pipeline to India.

Hey.. wasn't it Goebbels who said that if you tell a lie enough times, people will eventually come to believe it?? ;0)

Iran says, officially, "Death to America", "Death to Jews and Israel". Well, that sounds like a declaration of war to me. I would consider that sufficient to obliterate Iran or conquer it and make it more civilized, like Japan or Germany.

It certainly sounds like a declaration of war against Israel.

Can you imagine if Bush came out and said that the US was pledged to wipe Iran off the face of the map? That would definitely sound like a declaration of war.

But we just sit back and idly tell ourselves "oh, they're just being rhetorical and don't really mean it"..

Until one day, as we discovered with Bin Ladin's declarations of war, HE DID MEAN IT.

Hawk
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