Posted on 01/02/2012 8:02:48 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Thisis all to make Zero look better. He’ll play tough but not place sanctions on Iran, then Iran will backoff and Zero will take credit for being tough.
Zero’s planning his next vacation, he’s delegated other affairs.
Posturing is the perfect word for this..
Exactly, except this isn’t just bravado. It is designed to get those civlian ships to stay in port and cause havoc on the oil markets.
“If we fire them all, then the Great Satan can’t find them and blow them up. We will show them, Insh’allah.”
Oil being fungible, sanctions from the West are no more than symbolic. Eastern nations will gladly buy the Iranian oil while the West is buying Saudi oil. Net effect? More or less nil.
Certainly we are not backing Iran into the Corner the Japanese were backed into prior to WW2.
Iran has choices. All they need do is stop building the weapon they have promised to destroy Israel with.
The thesis of this story is a boatload.
Certainly we are not backing Iran into the Corner the Japanese were backed into prior to WW2.
Iran has choices. All they need do is stop building the weapon they have promised to destroy Israel with.
The thesis of this story is a boatload.
They can’t build refineries to make their own gasoline, but they sure like their bottle rockets.
Meanwhile, our boys and girls on the big love boat, the USS John Stennis, are making out in the rope lockers like there’s no tomorrow.
Is Julie on that boat? I liked Julie. She was pretty in a cute sort of way. I used to dream about being stuck in a lifeboat with her. I’ll bet she’s a Captain by now. Oh, Julie....give me the orders that I’ve longed to hear. I’d batten down her hatches.
Eh? What corner would that be?
The Japanese were an expansionist nation prior to WWII. They had invaded China in the 1930s and had taken over and militarized many of the Pacific Islands, including the Philippines, and then bombed our Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor. What corner were they backed into to cause that?
Exactly. NoBama is an utter and complete failure. The NWO is an utter and complete failure and the idiots in charge of their respective nations that bought into this shit are utter and complete failures.
FDR's sanctions deprived Japan of the resources it needed to wage an offensive war. That gave the Japanese two options: 1. Stop its expansionism, or 2. Seize the resources it needed to wage an offensive war, by expanding its offensive war. I don't think FDR bears any responsibility because the Japanese chose to expand their war. I think that FDR, and his civilian and military advisers, bear a lot of responsibility for not adequately preparing for what would happen if the Japanese chose option 2.
There is an excellent book titled The New Dealers' War: The war within WWII by Thomas Freeman. He makes a compelling case that FDR got into the war and fought it in a way to save Joe Stalin's butt. Hitler had attacked him from the west and Japan was posing a threat on the eastern front. Freeman says that FDR had outfitted an old sailing ship with a cannon, put in under an American flag, put a young Navy Lt in charge, making it a U.S. warship, and sailed it into Japanese waters trying to instigate an incident with Japan to give us the excuse to enter the war. Japan saved him the trouble and attacked Pearl Harbor but never spotted the sailing ship.
As we have learned since, there were lots of Communists and Communist sympathizers in FDR's administration. Additional pressure was exerted by his wife.
How can you step up your offensive war if you’re deprived of the means to do so?
Iran isn’t going to play ball with Obama like that. Doesn’t fit the plan of bringing the Mahdi back.
And if you think that the Japanese were right to attack us, you had better hope we never meet. I may ask for your property or goods at whatever price I want, and when you refuse shoot you and take it. And unless you are a hypocrite, you would have no grounds to complain.
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