09-14-2016, 05:45 PM
(09-12-2016, 11:40 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Donald Trump said Friday night that he would shoot Iranian vessels "out of the water" if they bother American ships.
"Iran, when they circle our beautiful destroyers with their little boats and they make gestures at our people that they shouldn't be allowed to make, they will be shot out of the water," the GOP presidential candidate said at a campaign rally in Pensacola, Florida.
http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-tr...ips-2016-9
Do you know what is paradoxical? The US and Iranian Navy have been cooperating in the suppression of piracy off the coastline of Somalia.
Even worse -- the laws of war do not establish obscene gestures as causes for military responses.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.