Well it looks like the Brits are not going to dare to cross the line drawn in the sand by Iran.
You know growing up as a baby boomer there is an old story that is told. Unfortunately the failing memory of depleting synapses is sketchy on the details and the fact/fiction quality of the story. I am certain many of you have heard the story, so if I butcher it see the point and not the prose.
Briefly the story goes a healthy yet remarkably skin and bones lad is on the beach with a gal. The time was marvelous. In the old days of fun at the beach the big muscle guys worked out there. As it turns out the gal caught the eye of one of the muscle men.
He strolls over to the thin boy. He draws a line in the sand. Muscle man tells skin and bones with a wink toward the gal, “Boy if you cross the line and meet my challenge I will leave you alone, if you don’t that sweet thing on the beach towel next to you comes with me.”
The boy knows he would be pulverized by mister muscles and lowers his head. His gal giggles and leaps to the muscle man’s side. Mister muscles kicks sand in the face of the boy and walks off with the girl.
Yeah I know those chauvinistic days are gone (well officially, I still think the feminist would leap at the opportunity of a muscular man).
The boy is humiliated. How does he handle this heinous insult to his dignity? Does he whisper to his friends and acquaintances that he will launch a diplomatic negotiation with the muscle man and his muscle pals to show truly that his skin and bones are not worthy of such insults? If the boy went to muscle man territory on the beach to demonstrate his verbal prowess of elocution, how do you think the muscle nation will respond? They will probably slap him around and kick a little more sand and laugh a little harder. The boy does not realize that an intellectual exchange with Neanderthals will not succeed. Neanderthals act with what works until the act fails to work.
What does the boy do? He bucks up and works out. Skin and bones become muscle and sinew. The boy not only has an intellect but the strength to back up his words. The boy confidently enters muscle beach to dish out some power to the Neanderthal.
The young man approaches Neanderthal (who still has his gal) and draws a line in the sand. It turns out Neanderthal is a coward. He lacks the intellect to engage a person of equal or greater strength. Muscle man does not cross the line in the sand and flees. The girl is impressed. (Here I’d like to think the young man realizes there are better mermaids in the sea and waves her off, but I don’t remember.)
Britain and America have long left the days of skin and bones behind. Challenge the scoundrel Iran in response to their act of war.
You know growing up as a baby boomer there is an old story that is told. Unfortunately the failing memory of depleting synapses is sketchy on the details and the fact/fiction quality of the story. I am certain many of you have heard the story, so if I butcher it see the point and not the prose.
Briefly the story goes a healthy yet remarkably skin and bones lad is on the beach with a gal. The time was marvelous. In the old days of fun at the beach the big muscle guys worked out there. As it turns out the gal caught the eye of one of the muscle men.
He strolls over to the thin boy. He draws a line in the sand. Muscle man tells skin and bones with a wink toward the gal, “Boy if you cross the line and meet my challenge I will leave you alone, if you don’t that sweet thing on the beach towel next to you comes with me.”
The boy knows he would be pulverized by mister muscles and lowers his head. His gal giggles and leaps to the muscle man’s side. Mister muscles kicks sand in the face of the boy and walks off with the girl.
Yeah I know those chauvinistic days are gone (well officially, I still think the feminist would leap at the opportunity of a muscular man).
The boy is humiliated. How does he handle this heinous insult to his dignity? Does he whisper to his friends and acquaintances that he will launch a diplomatic negotiation with the muscle man and his muscle pals to show truly that his skin and bones are not worthy of such insults? If the boy went to muscle man territory on the beach to demonstrate his verbal prowess of elocution, how do you think the muscle nation will respond? They will probably slap him around and kick a little more sand and laugh a little harder. The boy does not realize that an intellectual exchange with Neanderthals will not succeed. Neanderthals act with what works until the act fails to work.
What does the boy do? He bucks up and works out. Skin and bones become muscle and sinew. The boy not only has an intellect but the strength to back up his words. The boy confidently enters muscle beach to dish out some power to the Neanderthal.
The young man approaches Neanderthal (who still has his gal) and draws a line in the sand. It turns out Neanderthal is a coward. He lacks the intellect to engage a person of equal or greater strength. Muscle man does not cross the line in the sand and flees. The girl is impressed. (Here I’d like to think the young man realizes there are better mermaids in the sea and waves her off, but I don’t remember.)
Britain and America have long left the days of skin and bones behind. Challenge the scoundrel Iran in response to their act of war.
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Amadhenijad never said he wants to "wipe Israel off the map"
The exact words were "The zionist regime must vanish from the page of time like the Soviet Union"
Furthermore, the Irani Ayatollah and supreme leader has endorsed the international consensus and the Arab league on the resolution of the conflict. It is Israel and the US that have shown total contempt for international law, borders, and treaties on nuclear non-proliferation.
These are not opinions, but facts, regardless of political ideology.
By the standards by which you think the US is entitled to bomb others, other countries would be entitled to bomb the US to smithereens. There is something you should have learned in Church. it is called the principle of universality-- if something is right when we do it, it's right when they do it, and if it's wrong when they do it it's wrong when we do it. That is the most basic moral principle. Whoever does not apply it is a hypocrite and should have the decency to shut up.
Mr. Anonymous I have had heard that quibling of the translation of Mr. [Ahmadinejad] Holocaust-Denier. The fact is Ahmadinejad has often indicated that Israel's demise would be immanent. If the translation was not exact, the agenda and implications are the same - the destruction of Israel.
Yeah, the Fuhrer [Supreme Leader - NOT] indeed has endorsed the Arab League/Saudi Plan. A plan that promises the destruction of Israel by forcing the Jewish Nation to give up more Biblical land that has indeed been an excellent buffer from Mohammedan aggression since the last two unproked Mohammedan invasions of 1967 and 1973. That plan is suicide for Israel, which is of course the true agenda of Sunni and Shia Mohammedans.
If you speak of "Universality," then you know the moral depravity of targeting innocent citizens for homicide suicide bombers and the brave Mohammedan warriors hide behind so-called civilian men, women and children human shields.
Universality would call for the obliteration of the Mohammedan agenda to protect Christianity. This is the "Just War" presented by one of the most prominent of Christians - Augustine. The Bishop of a land in North Africa that was eventually overrun by Mohammedans and force conversions by attrition, humiliation and the sword.
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