[yarddog]

Your post is pure blather.

If Castro thought he had the ability to capture Guantanamo he would have done it yesterday.

Of course there is really no comparison with Fort Sumter. None at all.

Hong Kong is an odd situation. For the last few years at least there was no point in taking it. It would be theirs anyway in a short time.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Your post is pure blather.

Logic and reason often appear as blather to those who are emoting rather then thinking.

If Castro thought he had the ability to capture Guantanamo he would have done it yesterday.

It did not stop him from writing a bunch of other military checks his butt could not cash.

Of course there is really no comparison with Fort Sumter. None at all.

Denial is not just a river in Egypt.

Hong Kong is an odd situation. For the last few years at least there was no point in taking it. It would be theirs anyway in a short time.

Which explains why they waited for the last few years but not the decades before.

[BroJoeK]

yarddog: "If Castro thought he had the ability to capture Guantanamo he would have done it yesterday.
Of course there is really no comparison with Fort Sumter.
None at all."

In fact, there are a number of historical analogies to Fort Sumter:

1. British troops occupied New York for more than a year after Cornwallis' surrender at Yorktown.
   Americans made no efforts to dislodge the Brits by force.

2. After 1781 British maintained several forts on US territory, in New York and Michigan, some until 1796 others until 1815.
   These never became a casus belli for US Presidents.

3. Communist Cuba has demanded for years that the US surrender Guantanamo Bay, and has refused to accept US lease payments.
   But if the Communists were to assault Guantanamo, force its surrender and seize it, that would be an act of war, as certainly as the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and the Confederate assault on Fort Sumter.

The fact is that the Confederacy had no lawful claim -- none -- to Fort Sumter, and their military assault on it was an act of war as certainly as any other such attack.