[chezlaw]

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I've no ideas how you get that interpretation.


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"our foreign policies are in some small way responsible for what happens aren't they? and we are ins some way responsble for that aren't we?"
So Iran is justified in killing US/UK soldiers in Iraq? What is the casus belli this opinion?

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hmm I don't believe that some small responsibility justifies killing anybody. I'm arguing against that, you are the one who seems to agree with this hideous idea.


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BTW I don't think this is gunboat diplomacy, that was a cheap bluff where it was considered there was relatively little chance of being called.


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So when Reagan sank 1/2 the Iranian navy in one day this was a bluff???!!!! LOL! I wonder what you would call a raise? I suppose if Reagan invaded Iran and put all their cities to the torch and plowed their land with salt you would call this check/calling.

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I was thinking more of thios type of thing: "Gunboat diplomacy had its origins in the Opium War, when the Chinese rebelled against the British importation of opium into China, and the British response was to send a gunboat up the Yangtze River" but it may just be a US/UK different use of the same language - hopefully we agree not to fight over that [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

chez