Disembowelment is a practice of the Samurai class, not the average Japanese. The Kamikaze didn’t commit seppuku while flying into Allied vessels and it would be considered very presumptuous for the average Japanese to attempt the ritual. You certainly have some odd ideas.

I’m a Slavic specialist, I have friends who are Persian specialists. Iran is on the border of the old Soviet Union and near to missile testing facilities, so it fell under my brief.

Actually, I advocated the creation of a consolidation of resources that combined all of the border agencies. Unfortunately what the Hedgemony did was a total screw-up with relevant agencies left out, and irrelevant agencies inserted, in the standard plan to make government more inefficient.

By the way, you left out my assistant professor of computer science, head of criminal investigations for a small law enforcement department. and small business owner. All of the various positions I have held are related to two skills – linguistics and systems analysis. I had forty years to do it, so the Mensa thing is really not a requirement.

Ahmadinejad has never threatened Israel with anything other than retaliation uf they attacked Iran. The supposed threat that Israel will be wiped off the map, doesn’t even exist as an idiom in Farsi. What has been said is that Israel is a European transplant that doesn’t belong in the Middle East. That has always been the Iranian complaint about Israel, that it was a European solution that showed no regard for the people who lived there.

If the inspectors were thrown out, someone really should tell them they are not supposed to be there. Iran doesn’t want to discuss history with the IAEA, but the inspectors are still there. Do try to keep up.

Your stereotyping would be amusing if people in power didn’t share your delusions. You know less about Islam than you do about the military, and that takes some effort. Based on percentages, the Japanese are the most suicide prone people in the world, although the US military is rapidly closing the gap based on alarming new figures since the beginning of the Iraq War. With 1.4 billion adherents, Islam is way down the list.

You were the one who claimed that Americans don’t understand about threats to their soil, and I was pointing to the obvious threats of the Cold War. If you don’t like being shown to be in error, don’t make mistakes.

Iran began the nuclear process under the Shah as a response to the ancient “Atoms for Peace” program promoted by the US. This isn’t something started after their revolution. The problem they encountered and the reason they had to find other sources to build their facilities was the US decision to violate the contracts in place to construct the reactors, which included pressure on the German government which resulted in their breaking of contracts.

I guess you are totally unfamiliar with the Christian tradition of martyrdom. I guess you can’t imagine a British garrison holding out to the last man. I don’t suppose you ever heard of waves of British soldiers repeatedly attacking trenches in the face of machine gun fire in World War I. You apparently believe only Muslims are willing to die for what they believe. Sorry, but not everyone in a Western nation is quite as cowardly as you apparently assume.

As for your scenario with Mexico, with laughter at the absurd concept. No one is currently threatening Mexico, certainly, no one with nuclear weapons like Israel.

Israel shares no borders with Iran. Iran has never threatened Israel. Iran has never participated in any significant way in any attacks on Israel, and only became involved in support for the Shi’ia in Lebanon after Israel invaded the country. Israel creates its own enemies.

Iran is a signatory of the Nonproliferation Treaty; Israel isn’t. There are international inspections of Iran’s facilities; Israel refuses to acknowledge their existence. Iran isn’t occupying anyone; Israel is.

Denial of the reality of Israeli policies doesn’t make those policies disappear.

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The UK maintained the property records during the Mandate, so it’s not like people didn’t know it went on. Farmers only have their land, and they don’t part with it willingly after being there for generations.

You look at the eminent domain battles in the US when you try to widen a road, that include compensation, and then think what they would be like if there was no compensation. We would definitely have blood shed if it was tried down here, so I don’t think people should expect a different reaction from Palestinians.

When you have a stateless and poorly educated people with no hope for the future, Bad Things Happen nine times out of ten.

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There is no way of making everyone happy. The most you can hope for is to make the majority of people only minimally unhappy without making anyone totally miserable.

Israel was a European solution to a European problem created by European crimes, but the Arabs were the ones who lost their land. This is at the heart of all of the animosity.

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Mr. Duff you have obviously been away for a significant period and totally missed the Cold War and Mutually Assured Destruction. Do try to keep up.

My Father spent his military career creating and refining guidance systems for our weapons, while I spent the bulk of my military career watching the developments of the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces. I have a rather extensive understanding of threat levels and capabilities.

If you evaluate reality on its own terms without a political filter, you might understand what is going on.

BTW, Hitler was running around invading neighbors to amass “living room” and “for security reasons”. The analogy is better matched to Israel than Iran when looked at without filters. Israel is the nation with the nuclear arsenal, the history of unprovoked wars, the occupation of land, and the racial justifications.

Iran hasn’t had an offensive war since about 1780. During World War II it was preemptively occupied by the UK and US, although it was neutral.

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