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Originally Posted by Tashah  This thread is about posturing and bluffing. I gave my opinions on the matter per Israel. Whether you like it or not Comedy, I call 'em as I see 'em.
You can bitch and moan and do that dismal Iraq-3-step to your hearts content. It won't change my mind. I don't think Israel is bluffing. History says Israel is not bluffing. |
I was responding only to your response to mikhail, and not to your analysis of that bluff:
"I dont think America will back them it could destroy all the progress made in Iraq." (mikhail)
Sometimes we bluff and do not know it:
We were already at war with Iraq, with endless authorization to bomb them back to the stone age at will since Public Law 102-1, and the cease-fire resolution hanging over Iraq was not limited to WMD, so letting people get away with calling Iraq "preemption" is an implementation of the Hart-Rudman bluff.
"When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck before you crush him." (President Franklin Delano Roosevelt Fireside Chat to the Nation, September 11, 1941)
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt Fireside Chat, Rattlesnakes of the Ocean 9-11-1941
Trying to defang a mutant rattlesnake, who can regrow the fangs, is not safely cutting off the head.
The problem here is I cannot guarantee it is not practically a bluff to claim we will stand by Israel, in the next administration(s), if all we have done with Operation Iraqi Freedom goes South because of an Israeli attack on Iran. I call that as I see it.
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“[59.14] They will not fight against you in a body save in fortified towns or from behind walls; their fighting between them is severe, you may think them as one body, and their hearts are disunited; that is because they are a people who have no sense.”
Yeah, a wall and a border patrol will protect us. {sound of laughter}
