From: joshb@xs4all.nl   
      
   On 2020-04-24, rbowman  wrote:   
   > On 04/23/2020 07:31 PM, Jos Boersema wrote:   
   >> Trump has apparently ‛Tweeted’ that the USA is going to attack Iranian   
   >> boats if those boats “harass” USA war ships.  Apparently it does not   
   >> enter the mind of people in the western world that Iran is located at the   
   >> Persian Gulf. Are they believing Iran to be a Nation on the North Sea or   
   >> in the Gulf of Mexico ? Iranian navy vessels are not anywhere near western   
   >> shores, but rather close to the natural sphere of influence of Iran,   
   >> unlike the Imperial blood soaked terrorist forces of the USA military,   
   >> with its gangster Government.   
   >   
   > The Marine Corps Hymn mentions the 'shores of Tripoli' That's a   
   > reference to the first Barbary War which was waged by Thomas Jefferson   
   > in 1801. It was arguably unconstitutional and the country was off to a   
   > good start.   
   >   
   > At least it was a foreign enemy. George Washington was the only sitting   
   > President to head an army in the field. The army was larger that any he   
   > had commanded during the Revolutionary War and was used to pacify US   
   > citizens in western Pennsylvania.   
   >   
   > The second president, John Adams, made it illegal to criticize the   
   > government or its minions.   
   >   
   > Nothing changes.   
      
   Indeed nothing changes. Yet we must march on and try again, and we will ;-)   
   If we cannot change a thing, not save anyone, perhaps we can lessen the   
   shame of our failure.   
      
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