US, UK, France Launch Sea Exercise For Naval Blockade On Iran

Debka.com ^ | July 21, 2008 | Debka

[Finalapproach29er]

Did the Japanese locals tell you what they were doing in China and SE Asia to precipitate a blockade?

[Prophet in the wilderness]

This could provoke and cause Iran to make the first move to a ( HOT ) war.
If that is the case, or if that is what might happen, no more need to negotiate with them.

[RightWhale]

naval blockade

It might be so, DEBKA notwithstanding, but blockade is an act of war.

[RightWhale]

Are we trying to induce Iran into attacking our fleet first?

Why no, of course not. War in such a strategic location is the last thing anybody would want to instigate. Should Iran fire the first shot and anybody is left on earth to remember the history, they will remember the first shot not these subtleties of casus belli.

[sam_paine]

Oh puhlease. Drinking beer and getting them into a discussion on their chinese-korean-japanese racial superiority over each other thing? No thanks.

Point being that in 1941 nobody would have heard of the US Blockade as the cause of the war.

In 2008 nobody will hear anything but that a US blockade caused the war in the Persian Gulf.

[MARKUSPRIME]

Exactly they were killing and raping the chinese,and other SE asian countries.

[MARKUSPRIME]

Exactly they were killing and raping the chinese,and other SE asian countries.

[sam_paine]

You guys don't really believe we went to official war in the Pacific theater just to protect the chinese and others from Japanese atrocities?

If so why didn't we send the US Army Air Corps instead of a few ragtag Flying Tigers?

[Finalapproach29er]

They were Empire building by rape and pillage.

Somebody had to resist. WE were right to sanction them.

[MARKUSPRIME]

I agree. We also wasn’t wanting to goto war with Japan,but were using other tools until the last resort.They had to be stopped and we did the right thing.