Re: [iwar] [fc:You.negotiate.with.your.enemies.with.your.knee.on.his.chest.and.you r.knife.at.his.throat.]

From: Ross Stapleton-Gray (amicus@well.com)
Date: 2001-10-18 22:39:31


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Subject: Re: [iwar] [fc:You.negotiate.with.your.enemies.with.your.knee.on.his.chest.and.you r.knife.at.his.throat.]
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At 10:20 PM 10/18/01 -0700, Fred Cohen (channeling Bob Wills LtCol of 
Marines (Ret)) wrote:
>My American Perspective.
>
>"You negotiate with your enemies with your knee on his chest and your 
>knife at his throat."
>...
>1979 U.S. Embassy in Tehran
>1983  U.S. Marine barracks in Lebanon
>1988  Pan Am flight 103 blown up over Scotland
>1988  U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania destroyed
>1996  Kobhar Towers in Saudi Arabia blown up by car bomb
>2000  USS Cole attacked in Yemen

You've got to intersperse those dates with other events, of course, e.g.:

1953  U.S.-backed coup deposes Iranian government
1980  U.S. provides support to Iraq in its war on Iran
1988  USS Vincennes shoots down Iranian Airbus

and, of course, a raft of issues regarding Israel; whether or not one 
believes that the U.S. should be a strong ally of Israel, one can debate 
the limits, e.g., in looking the other way re nuclear proliferation (I'm 
not sure if to this day there's an official U.S. position on whether or not 
Israel has the bomb... we didn't get too bent out of shape when friend 
Israel flew an airstrike on Iraq's Osirak reactor in 1981, though).

There's more than one macho-tough dimension to this little policy crisis, 
though.

Ross


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