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To: Little Ray

There isn’t. But I doubt anyone has much stomach for bloodshed, fiscal or otherwise.


5 posted on 10/19/2012 12:41:14 PM PDT by MetaThought
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To: MetaThought

That depends on how much potential cash is tied up in the issue. If enough money is involved, they’ll find a ‘moral’ reason stop the UK, with force if necessary.

One of the reasons for the Civil War here was the South’s plan for a 10% tariff, combined with its control of the mouth of the Mississippi. The Yankees saw visions of empty ports and grass growing in the streets of New York and Boston - there was no choice but to go to war...


7 posted on 10/19/2012 12:45:48 PM PDT by Little Ray (AGAINST Obama in the General.)
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