Isn't it a definitive act of war for one country to storm the consulate of another, threaten to kill

[seemslikeadream]

http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2007/01/presidents-intentions-towards-iran.html


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That makes unplanned -- or seemingly unplanned -- confrontations highly likely, whether through miscalculation, miscommunication, misperception, or affirmative deceit. Whatever else is true, given the stakes involved -- the unimaginable, impossible-to-overstate stakes -- and the fact that we are unquestionably moving forward on this confrontational path quite deliberately, this issue is receiving nowhere near the attention in our political discussions and media reports that it so urgently demands.

For all the pious talk about the need to be "seriously concerned" and give "thoughtful consideration" to what will happen if we leave Iraq, there is a very compelling -- and neglected -- need to ponder what will happen if we stay and if we escalate. And the need for "serious concern" and "thoughtful consideration" extends to consequences not just in Iraq but beyond.


This is the most serious action yet. Isn't it a definitive act of war for one country to storm the consulate of another, threaten to kill them if they do not surrender, and then detain six consulate officers?

[tedzbear]

1. Only if it's OUR consulate.

Ha.

[Freddie Stubbs]

2. Sounds like payback for what happened in Tehran in 1979

[havocmom]

3. Combine it with placing US carrier group within range of Iranian land based missles

and you get more than payback as a motive.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x3094448

[wuushew]

4. So this event doesn't bother you?

Maybe 1979 was payback for 1953.

The steadily crumbling diplomacy of the United States never fails to disappoint.

[Jack Rabbit]

5. Yes.

It sounds like an outrage the Iranians once committed against the United States.

But Bush doesn't think it's an act of war if he does it.

[ronnie624]

7. The "outrage" committed against the United States

by Iran, was in response to the U.S. using its embassy as a base of operations for conducting an intensive covert war against the Iranian government.

If a foreign government was using its embassy to stage bombings and assassinations in the United States, I would certainly hope our government would take steps to stop it.

It seems Iranians will forever be the victims of U.S. intervention and aggression, not the other way around.

[mod mom]

6. We had to have a reason to set up our patriot missles.

I wish the armed forces would step down. * is putting our military stationed in Iraq in grave danger, but doesn't give a hoot. No armed vehicles for the newly/and soon to be deployed troops, and now provoking action instead of attempting diplomacy. I'm afraid * sees Iraq as a losing battle, so why not raise the stakes to protect his leg-ass-y? :(

[wuushew]

8. kick

n/t