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To: Lane3 who wrote (24230)	7/15/2006 8:33:46 PM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541521

disabling ports, roads, airports and the like is SOP for civilized countries at war. So, let's say the Minutemen shoot a couple of Mexican border guards (maybe they were carefully looking the other way while stuffing notes in their pockets, or something). Is it reasonable for Mexico to retaliate by shelling San Antonio, blockading Houston & Galveston, and bombing DFW airpots so that nothing goes through there? And of course shell a few roads, in case. Maybe it's war. With maybe 130 regretted civilian casualties; say, a few families in Houston, obviously some collateral damage in SanAn, and maybe a few dozen state employees in Dallas airport? Is that good? Does that make you happy? Or is it only allowed if the country doing the damage is much more powerful than the victim - would it be OK the other way round, perhaps, if some Mexican bandits kidnapped a couple of Texas Rangers and you responded by nuking Mexico City? it seems that disabling ports, roads, airports and the like is SOP for civilized* countries at war.* So when did Israel declare war on Lebanon? or don't they even bother with a pretext these days? It may escape your filters, but these days the civilised world really doesn't look too kindly on unilateral military actions on trumped-up charges. It used to be called an invented pretext for war, in Europe, back in the days of people like Hitler. It was used as an excuse for invading Czechoslavkia and Poland. The "civilised" world hasn't used this since. Saddam Hussein has, of course, against Kuwait. And now Israel. Funny how these parallels keep appearing, isn't it.