Thursday, September 27, 2007

[CanYoAssDigIt] Fwd: Thursday's Daily Brief

And the value of Gary Hart's advice is exactly what Iran paid for it. The history of American military adventures shows that in the abscence of provocation (Such as the Gulf of Tonkin, or Saddam's weapons of mass distruction) it will be invented.

The notion that Iran can avoid conflict by pulling back from it's own borders while the US acts like a three year old that owns the world (if it can't have what it wants, it will smash it) is rediculous.

I think that it was a good idea for Ahmadinejad to come to the US... he can either stay at home and leave the propaganda campaign unanswered, or he can come the US and try to counter it.

I have been astonished by the number of people that recognized Lee Bollinger pathetic anti-intellectual display for what it was. Perhaps that's what Hart, an embarrassing irrelevant failure of a man who buried his own political career through his own arrogance and bad judgement, was really upset about.

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Gary Hart: Unsolicited Advice to the Government of Iran

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Presuming that you are not actually ignorant enough to desire war with the United States, you might be well advised to read the history of the sinking of the U.S.S. Maine in Havana harbor in 1898 and the history of the Gulf of Tonkin in 1964.

Having done so, you will surely recognize that Americans are reluctant to go to war unless attacked. Until Pearl Harbor, we were even reluctant to get involved in World War II. For historians of American wars the question is whether we provoke provocations.

Given the unilateral U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, you are obviously thinking the rules have changed. Provocation is no longer required to take America to war.

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